Boeing 777 rejected take off (RTO)

For certification purposes, Boeing 777 made this test to show that it can stop safely at maximum thrust, by the end of the runway, taxi for 5 minutes (the time needed for the firetrucks to reach the plane) and not catch fire from the great heat produced from the disk brakes. Very educative, enjoy. http://aviation-videos.blogspot.com/

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[Zelin Xu]

777 did way better than A340-600

[dmaddles]

boeing, doing it better since 1916

[DEEREMEYER1]

Things that happened after a past reference still happened in the past and there is no need for a "future in the past" tense.

[Q Nozomi]

Because the "simple past" and the "future in the past" are both used for describing the past. It's useful for a language to describe an event that happens before, during or after a reference point in the past, present or future.

Perhaps you know the "past perfect" tense which is about things that happened before a past reference (example, "I had eaten"). The "future in the past" is about things that will happen after a past reference.

[DEEREMEYER1]

So why does the "narrative" oscillate between past tense and "future in the past" tense?

[DEEREMEYER1]

Basically it's used to make a short story long. Instead of saying the "the plane is loaded to maximum weight", they say "the plane was at the maximum weight that it would ever carry". That's a significant difference and the extra fluff is completely unnecessary.

[DEEREMEYER1]

I don't remember learning about a "future in the past" tense when I was in school taking English every year for 12 years. Must be something they ginned up to explain this completely stupid way of speaking.

[Q Nozomi]

He is not using the simple future tense but the "Future in the past" tense (Google it, first result).

The narrator is using the video to set the flow of the storytelling. Before the acceleration occurs (in the video) the narrator wanted to refer to Cashman's intention to accelerate - something that has not yet happened in the story (even though the whole story is set in the past). To convey this properly, he correctly uses "would accelerate."

[Minwir AlGhamdi]

if its not BOEING iam not flying!

[GeneralKenobiSIYE]

Whoa! Somebody install brake ducts from open wheel racing on those, quick! Needs the flowing air to help cool them down. CART's brake disks would get over 1,500F under hard braking after a fast straight.

[Matthew Shields]

Was this at Vandenberg Air Force Base?