Amazing jump-jet landing

[Beebo]

Wow, landing on a stool! Great video of a US pilot landing on a carrier with out the nose wheel.
These planes are very clever, why did the UK get rid of them?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28065288

 

[SimonJKH]

That is cool.

 

[ianrauk]

wow

 

[EltonFrog]

Yeah but Wiggo can get off his bike, and roll it fifty feet and and it will park up against a rock wall without falling over. Try that mister fancy pants jet pilot!

 

[winjim]

These planes are very clever, why did the UK get rid of them?

Because the landing gear has a tendency to fail?

 

[Bollo]

Landing gear's slack.

 

[slowmotion]

IKEA's upped their game.

 

[Keith Oates]

That is one great piece of flying !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Gravity Aided]

Because the landing gear has a tendency to fail?

Apparently, because we have the stool for just this sort of thing. Makes you wonder. Fine bit of flying, when you consider both the ship and the plane are in motion.

 

[Thomk]

Phew

 

[vernon]

That is one great piece of flying !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It wasn't really a great piece of flying. It was a routine landing with a bit of a deft touch. The aerodynamics of the aircraft was not affected by the retracted front wheel and the pilot had full normal control of the aircraft throughout the landing.

If you want a great piece of flying read about this pilot of an F-15 who landed his aircraft with one wing missing after suffering a mid-air collision:


On May 1st. 1983, a dogfight training took place between two F-15D's and four A-4N Skyhawks over the skies of the Negev desert in Israel.

The F-15D (#957, nicknamed 'Markia Shchakim', 5 killmarks) was used for the training of a new pilot in the squadron. Here is the description of the event as described in "Pressure Suit": "

At some point I collided with one of the Skyhawks, at first I didn't realize it. I felt a big strike, and I thought we passed through the jet stream of one of the other aircraft. Before I could react, I saw the big fire ball created by the explosion of the Skyhawk.

The radio started to deliver calls saying that the Skyhawk pilot has ejected, and I understood that the fire ball was the Skyhawk, that exploded, and the pilot was ejected automatically. There was a tremendous fuel stream going out of the wing, and I understood it was badly damaged.

The aircraft flew without control in a strange spiral. I re-connected the electric control to the control surfaces, and slowly gained control of the aircraft until I was straight and level again. It was clear to me that I should eject. When I gained control I said :

"Hey, wait, don't eject yet!". No warning light was on and the navigation computer worked as usual; I just needed a warning light in my panel to indicate that I missed a wing..." The instructor ordered me to eject.

The wing is a fuel tank, and the fuel indicator showed 0.000 so I assumed that the jet stream sucked all the fuel out of the other tanks. However, I remembered that the valves operate only in one direction, so that I might have enough fuel to get to the nearest airfield and land. I worked like a machine, wasn't scared and didn't worry. All I knew was: as long as the sucker flies, I'm gonna stay inside. I started to decrease the airspeed, but at that point one wing was not enough.

So I went into a spin down and to the right. A second before I decided to eject, I pushed the throttle and lit the afterburner. I gained speed and thus got control of the aircraft again. Next thing I did was lowering the arresting hook.

A few seconds later I touched the runway at 260 knots, about twice the recommended speed, and called the tower to erect the emergency recovery net. The hook was torn away from the fuselage because of the high speed, but I managed to stop 10 meters before the net. I turned back to shake the hand of my instructor, who urged me to eject, and then I saw it for the first time - no wing


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The IAF (Israeli Air Force) contacted McDonnell Douglas and asked for information about the possibility to land an F-15 with one wing . MD replied that this is aero-dynamically impossible, as confirmed by computer simulations... Then they received the photo.... After two months the same F-15 got a new wing and returned to action. This is what "Flight international, 8 June 1985" wrote about the incident:

"The most outstanding Eagle save was by a pilot from a foreign air force. During air combat training his two seater F-15 was involved in a mid-air collision with an A-4 Skyhawk. The A-4 crashed, and the Eagle lost its right wing from about 2ft. outboard. After some confusion between the instructor who said eject, and the student who outranked his instructor and said no, the F-15 was landed at its desert base. Touching down at 290 kt, the hook was dropped for an approach and engagement. This slowed the F-15 to 100 kt, when the hook weak link sheared, and the aircraft was then braked conventionally.

It is said that the student was later demoted for disobeying his instructor, then promoted for saving the aircraft. McDonnell Douglas attributes the saving of this aircraft to the amount of lift generated by the engine intake/body and "a hell of a good pilot".

 

[slowmotion]

For outstanding airmanship, the pilot of the "Gimli Glider", a commercial jet that lost all power after running out of fuel over Canada, takes the biscuit.

http://www.wadenelson.com/gimli.html

Says Pearson, "Circumstances then began to build fairly rapidly."

 

[Thomk]

That may take the biscuit but this takes the kebab and chips:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232

After losing all flight controls following the failure of all 3 hydraulic lines the 2 pilots of this DC10 and 1 passenger (a DC10 instructor) managed to somehow land the plane. Sadly over 100 people lost their lives but many more lives were saved.

No one since in a simulator has successfully virtually landed this plane.

 

[Stephen brown]

I will raise you a roast dinner...


View: http://youtu.be/YLCrcw5L-SI

 

[vernon]

That may take the biscuit but this takes the kebab and chips:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232

After losing all flight controls following the failure of all 3 hydraulic lines the 2 pilots of this DC10 and 1 passenger (a DC10 instructor) managed to somehow land the plane. Sadly over 100 people lost their lives but many more lives were saved.

No one since in a simulator has successfully virtually landed this plane.

You lose. People died.