Please name a few as I thought the 727 was thought of as kind of a hotrod and got a few pilots in trouble. Also, what does VMC mean?
Sure enough, it goes up like a rocket and the center engine starts barking (when doesn’t it?). The flight engineer knows whats going on and ignores it, but the co-pilot freaks out and goes for the throttles. As luck would have it, the captain had decided enough stupidity and was already starting to push the wheel forward.
Does the 'barking' sound mean compressor stall? Or?
After what looked like a half-a$$ed attempted wing over, the aircraft rotated and dove nose first. It disappeared behind a series of hills, but I guess the elevator input had already started to take effect and somehow it made it. I am sure the crew spent the rest of the flight looking for suitable cleaning materials.
Sometimes God protects drunks and crazy pilots.
Properly flown the 727 is one of the safest aircraft ever. It’s fine going slow as long as you are at or above the published numbers. It will also bite you hard if you take a stall past stick pusher (which you are specifically prohibited from doing in the flight manual.)
VMC is the minimum control speed you can control the aircraft in the case of engine loss. No one is ever gets close to it willingly. The center engine was notorious for compressor stall. When the aircraft was first certified, Boeing hand selected engines for the center engine installation. Some engines just wouldn’t play there at all.