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The moment physics agrees to forget about you for a while.
means The act of leaving the ground to begin flight, or more broadly the moment something launches, departs, or surges upward.
from A plain compound of "take" and "off," both old Germanic-rooted English words. The literal sense of "taking off" — lifting or removing something — is centuries old, but the aviation meaning is young, arriving with powered flight in the early 20th century: the airplane "takes off" from the runway the way a hat is taken off a head. The mimicry sense (a "takeoff" of someone, an imitation) comes from the older idea of "taking off" a person's likeness or manner.
- riskiest phase
- Takeoff and climb cause most fatal accidents
- V1 speed
- Past it, you fly no matter what
- rotation
- Pilots literally pull the nose skyward by hand
- ground effect
- Wings get extra lift hugging the runway
- full throttle
- Engines burn most fuel in these minutes
concorde first flight — british airways supersonic jet, january 21, 1969, toulouse france
wright brothers kitty hawk — first powered airplane flight, december 17, 1903, north carolina