From: kim frey
Date: 1/9/2013 11:02:21 AM
Subject: FW:
F-111 Belly Landing
If you're into
special airplanes even a little, here is a video I'm sure you'll enjoy. These
guys do a remarkable job getting their aircraft back on the ground with a
minimal amount of damage. It could have very easily gone the other way. Also,
notice early in the video there is a sequence showing a F-111 dumping fuel with
the afterburners on lighting up the night sky. Something a little unique to the
F-111.
The Australians
flew the F-111 a lot longer than our Air Force. The airplane was originally
designed to land on a carrier deck so the gear structure is very strong. Even
landing on a long runway you just maintain 10 degrees angle of attack until the
runway stops your descent.
Because this is
the way the airplane was designed to be landed it felt just fine inside the
airplane, but for an observer outside the aircraft it looked like you forgot to
flare and really clobbered the landing. I don't know if metal fatigue was a
factor in this accident but they are fortunate the wheel fell off upon liftoff
and not while accelerating down the runway in full afterburner.
Using the tail
hook to catch the arresting cable was a great idea, as you will see. Arresting
wires on runways are not like the ones on the flight deck of a carrier. They
provide less resistance and let you decelerate over about a 900 ft. range,
something you wouldn't have room to do on a carrier.
Pretty neat
landing and luckily no fire. I heard them say in the video that the airport
tower had to tell them that they had lost a wheel on takeoff. I'm surprised,
with today's technology, that there isn't a
device built into
to the plane that would tell the pilot immediately that a wheel was missing.
Especially as critical as wheels are for landing the plane. I thought this was
rather strange.
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Joel Payne
Email flyplayne@bellsouth.net
Issue Area - General
Comments - Just received this
today. Nice scenery. Didn't do the same things on my "days off".
Almost wish I were back. ALMOST!!
Joel Payne B-767A [ret.]
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From: dbfly@att.net
To: DWSkjerven@aol.com
Sent: 1/2/2013 3:48:43 P.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: Fw: Chicago O'Hare Takeoffs, Landings, Taxiing On YouTube (1961 Vintage 8mm)
To: DWSkjerven@aol.com
Sent: 1/2/2013 3:48:43 P.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: Fw: Chicago O'Hare Takeoffs, Landings, Taxiing On YouTube (1961 Vintage 8mm)
Some raw
footage from O'Hare. jk
Sent: Tuesday, January 1, 2013 10:48 PM
Subject: Chicago O'Hare Takeoffs, Landings, Taxiing On YouTube (1961 Vintage 8mm)
Subject: Chicago O'Hare Takeoffs, Landings, Taxiing On YouTube (1961 Vintage 8mm)
Hello everyone,
I wanted to share some old vintage 8mm video (provided by Jim Neumann) from
Chicago O'Hare (1961). There are four videos on YouTube of aircraft takeoffs,
landings, taxiing, and even a short clip of a Delta mechanic oiling an 880.
There's over 40 minutes of video with a lot of different aircraft. Here's the
links:
Bye for now and I hope all is well with everyone. Happy New Year!
Dave
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