Dan: 

When I was stationed in northern Japan (in another life),  they were losing a lot of F-86D's for one reason or another.  So they flew in a factory rep (never knew exactly who).

He did a burner take-off and rolled it with the gear still down.  Flew a fairly tight pattern,and  made a  REAL short field landing (with drag chute and max braking).  Then he did a 180 on the runway,dropped the chute, then took off downwind on just the available runway he used for his short field landing.

WOW....Talk about impressive!!!!!!  Amazing the performance available when you stay inside the envelope).

Regards, Bill Hogarty