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A question: What is the largest plane you could theoretically get into the air by yourself?
They have those fly-in housing estates in the US and I’ve seen videos of small business jets using them. There’s a photo of John Travolta’s gaff with a 707 parked outside. Could he take off by himself?
He could push the aircraft back from where it is (with a tractor not by hand, obv), climb aboard using a ladder and drag it in after him, fire up the engines and head out to wherever.
Or, are there any number of things that mean this simply isn’t possible and you absolutely have to have ground crew or somebody to crank the starting handle while you hold the choke in?
So what is the largest/most modern plane that you could launch by yourself from the starting point that it is parked in a hanger?
Bonus point for the smallest plane that cannot be flown without at least one other person to assist.
Oh, and because this is a picture thread, have this
They have those fly-in housing estates in the US and I’ve seen videos of small business jets using them. There’s a photo of John Travolta’s gaff with a 707 parked outside. Could he take off by himself?
He could push the aircraft back from where it is (with a tractor not by hand, obv), climb aboard using a ladder and drag it in after him, fire up the engines and head out to wherever.
Or, are there any number of things that mean this simply isn’t possible and you absolutely have to have ground crew or somebody to crank the starting handle while you hold the choke in?
So what is the largest/most modern plane that you could launch by yourself from the starting point that it is parked in a hanger?
Bonus point for the smallest plane that cannot be flown without at least one other person to assist.
Oh, and because this is a picture thread, have this
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