Quote Originally Posted by Ronin
I´m fairly sure that when a comercial airliner with 4 engines is about to take off they take the engines to full throtle, but the plane doesn´t move while the brakes are one...
Found it! Gentlemen, meet Top Gear's '747 Crosswind' segment.

At full throttle the engines developed 58,000 pounds of thrust. Each experiment had to be restricted to twenty seconds lest the engines' backwash tore up the runway...

Oh, the 2CV... Jezus H. Christ...