Digging for info - front drum explosion on 727s

-Boosted- said

Difference is, on a launch you are not abruptly stopping the revolutions of the internals and continuing onto 2nd and then 3rd gear.

On a dry hop, it is very similar to a doing a burnout (think high revving internals) and then all of a sudden the wheels are spinning as fast. Kinda like the tires spinning then hooking while in 1st gear.

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Then our definition of a dry hop is different. After the burnout box about halfway to the staging lights I'll quickly power brake to launch RPMs and launch. The tires 99% of the time stick so there is no wheel spin. If there is tire spin, it is brief and the wheels aren't even rotating at 10 mph. I also don't get back into the throttle. I know to not launch at 100%.

Plus the dry hop is maybe 80% - 90% of a full launch.