Bladecutter
"Pursuit of Shape"
Granted @ 5700 ft, it's trim & i figure they can't be going out @ gross. Usual rotation is about 2/3rds length of roll. Doesn't leave much room to abort. The airlines, UPS, Fed Ex do a healthy business there. One week, I saw a 757 & an Airbus suck birds just after rotating, ,both exploded view an engine, both still in blue line, had just cleared the threshold out over the 73 & golf course.....summertime, roughly 85 degrees. The 757 must have been light, he just turned into a downwind leg, back to other end & landed, plane kept a good attitude. The Airbus a couple days later must have been heavy, he did same as 757, going back into a downwind, but the bird was mushing big time, with an extreme nose high attitude.Not sure how they're doing it. Maybe more powerful engines. I dispatched airplanes to and from SNA for many years and it was always one of my problem childs. On a hot day I had problems getting 27's & 37's out of there. Had to restrict payload and hold off passengers many times just to get 'em off the ground. It was one of (if not thee) shortest runways in our system. Just slightly over minimum. Probably close to minimum for the 57', 67's & 77's well. Still hard to imagine.
It is a dangerous airport without any runoff & severe drop off at the golf course end........but no losses have occurred there for some time, I never saw one.....I remember a Hawker 800 blew a tyre on take off & lit the magnesium wheel, but the Guy got it hauled down before the fence.