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I'll bet that puckered him up.
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Not Mike...
but I'd sure like to know if the gear came down the next time and whether the touch and go was the best idea...
but I'd sure like to know if the gear came down the next time and whether the touch and go was the best idea...
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For a long time early in my Air Force career I was an instructor pilot in UPT (undergraduate pilot training), and although it was rare, students occasionally attempted gear-up landings. Sometimes they succeeded.
There was one famous story about a solo T-37 student who landed with no gear. As he turned final, the controller repeatedly warned him about not having the gear down, but he pressed on and landed gear-up. He survived unscathed, and in the aftermath he was questioned about why he didn't respond to the repeated warnings to go around.
"Hell," he said, "I couldn't hear a thing with that damn warning horn going off."
There was a warning in the T-38 flight manual against landing gear-up in the event of a gear malfunction. Since parts of the bottom fuselage were made of magnesium there was considered to be a serious fire hazard, and it was recommended to eject rather that attempt a gear-up landing. However, as the years went by, a number of accidental gear-up landings occurred, none of which resulted in fire, so the warning was deleted as I recall.
There was one famous story about a solo T-37 student who landed with no gear. As he turned final, the controller repeatedly warned him about not having the gear down, but he pressed on and landed gear-up. He survived unscathed, and in the aftermath he was questioned about why he didn't respond to the repeated warnings to go around.
"Hell," he said, "I couldn't hear a thing with that damn warning horn going off."
There was a warning in the T-38 flight manual against landing gear-up in the event of a gear malfunction. Since parts of the bottom fuselage were made of magnesium there was considered to be a serious fire hazard, and it was recommended to eject rather that attempt a gear-up landing. However, as the years went by, a number of accidental gear-up landings occurred, none of which resulted in fire, so the warning was deleted as I recall.
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Looks like the Aerostar in the video made it to Fort Lauderdale and landed:
Plane touches down in Florida without deploying landing gear in video | Daily Mail Online
Here's some more info, including a picture of the damaged props:
Watch This Pilot Somehow Crash And Fly Away At The Same Time
Plane touches down in Florida without deploying landing gear in video | Daily Mail Online
Here's some more info, including a picture of the damaged props:
Watch This Pilot Somehow Crash And Fly Away At The Same Time
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My Dad tells the story that when he was flying (Douglas) B-26s in Korea, some of the hot rocks liked to charge down the runway and pull the gear lever just as they reached flying speed. One day a guy pulled the lever about a half-second too soon, and Dad said the sound of the prop tips hitting PSP was sickening. The guy got off okay, eventually, but of course had to circle around and land again. Wouldn't have wanted to be him for the next couple days.
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To ALL,
In the "for what it's worth department", my late father was "in B17s" throughout WWII & he said that when his squadron was based in North Africa that the "ops guy" kept saying, "GET LOWER, GET LOWER. GET DOWN ON THE DECK & KILL THE (obscenity deleted).", when using the B-17 for "close support fires" & strafing.
He later said, "That guy never said that again after a bird returned to back to base with a PALM TREE in the running gear."
(I just HAD to LOL at that "vision".)
yours, sw
In the "for what it's worth department", my late father was "in B17s" throughout WWII & he said that when his squadron was based in North Africa that the "ops guy" kept saying, "GET LOWER, GET LOWER. GET DOWN ON THE DECK & KILL THE (obscenity deleted).", when using the B-17 for "close support fires" & strafing.
He later said, "That guy never said that again after a bird returned to back to base with a PALM TREE in the running gear."
(I just HAD to LOL at that "vision".)
yours, sw
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Thanks. I forget that not everyone has the appropriate plug-in.
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Hint for posting YouTube video links: when you copy the link it will be in SSL format, i.e. "https://xxx.xxx". If you simply remove the "s", it will be accessible in a lot more browsers.
I've wanted to post this info for a long time here on GunHub, but there's no Hints or How To forum. Also, we could use a "sandbox" area where you could experiment with different types of posts before pulling the trigger in a real forum.
Finally, if a video link doesn't work for you, simply click on the title of the link, copy it, and paste it directly into a YouTube window. In this case pasting "Russian cargo plane needs more runway" into YouTube did the trick.
I've wanted to post this info for a long time here on GunHub, but there's no Hints or How To forum. Also, we could use a "sandbox" area where you could experiment with different types of posts before pulling the trigger in a real forum.
Finally, if a video link doesn't work for you, simply click on the title of the link, copy it, and paste it directly into a YouTube window. In this case pasting "Russian cargo plane needs more runway" into YouTube did the trick.
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There's an option to "Preview" posts, and I do so when there's a link involved.
But not all systems have the same software loadout.
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