LVSteve
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Wind was going well in Scotland today. Here's an interesting landing at Edinburgh airport.
Storm Eowyn: Shaky landing at Edinburgh Airport before red alert
Storm Eowyn: Shaky landing at Edinburgh Airport before red alert
Landing sideways
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I'm sure that pilot got all of the Beef Wellington and Single Malt that he could stomach that night.
StrawHat
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I have seen that done with two seaters but not with a plane full of souls.
Good flying!
Kevin
Good flying!
Kevin
I received my private license in the mid 80's in a Cessna 172. Had one landing like that before I solo'd and my biggest concern was getting the plane straightened back out once the wheels were on the ground. I'm pretty sure I was convinced I was about to make a hard right turn. Instructor sure seemed pretty calm about it!
One time I was aboard a 737 landing in a stiff crosswind. I could almost see down the runway from my side window. It was very quiet in that airplane. Just before touching, the pilot straightened her out and came down hard. He got a big round of lasting applause for that one.
A colleague of mine participated in an Everest expedition about 15 years ago. He didn't attempt to summit, only going as far as base camp. But he did have a rather harrowing experience flying in and out.
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Long ago pilots noted that any landing you can walk away from is a good landing. More recently someone added that if you can re-use the aircraft it's a great landing. That one qualifies as great.
Also illustrates why B52s have landing gear that can swivel so they point straight down the runway regardless of where the rest of the aircraft is pointing. I do expect there's some limit on that.
Also illustrates why B52s have landing gear that can swivel so they point straight down the runway regardless of where the rest of the aircraft is pointing. I do expect there's some limit on that.
A B-52 does that a lot. It's why they have bogey landing gear that pivots.
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I'm sure that pilot got all of the Beef Wellington and Single Malt that he could stomach that night.
I would suspect the crew also got free laundry service too.
venomballistics
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pretty well maximum cross wind ratings
I'm guessing the next plane just followed the brown stripe down the runway..
On a flight back from Chicago many many years ago in the era of Piedmont Airlines the entire east coast was under heavy thunderstoms....We took off from Chicago during a break in the worst of it.....(should have stayed on the ground.....)....anywho...coming into Greensboro I was sitting in the window seat just behind the wing and sitting next to me was a Priest.....(he was praying, I was screaming) because on approach I was looking straight down the runway....we were totally sideways.....I said Lord, get me down safe and you can have half of everything I own....
The pilot did a hell of a job and got us on the ground safe and sound and that Priest said..."I heard what you told the Lord and I know you are going to start today to do what you said you would do"..... I said "well no....I actually made a better deal when we stopped....I told the Lord if you ever get on another damn plane you can have it all"
A true story (the Lord and the Priest part just my added humor
Was truly the last trip in an airplane....
Prior to this flight, I had a decompression event in a C130 in the military, then after the service had a skidded off the runway in Washington, DC (commercial fight) during landing, and had to use the emergency slide to deplane, and a engine on fire during flight so I decided if you can't get their by car or train I will not be going.......
The pilot did a hell of a job and got us on the ground safe and sound and that Priest said..."I heard what you told the Lord and I know you are going to start today to do what you said you would do"..... I said "well no....I actually made a better deal when we stopped....I told the Lord if you ever get on another damn plane you can have it all"
A true story (the Lord and the Priest part just my added humor
Was truly the last trip in an airplane....
Prior to this flight, I had a decompression event in a C130 in the military, then after the service had a skidded off the runway in Washington, DC (commercial fight) during landing, and had to use the emergency slide to deplane, and a engine on fire during flight so I decided if you can't get their by car or train I will not be going.......
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As the guy who used to maintain that crosswind landing indicating system, I can say it was because of the landing gear arrangement rather than the crosswinds themselves.
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LVSteve
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Are you aware of a movie series called Final Destination?
Thus giving new meaning to the term, "skid marks"
It gets interesting when the cross wind is so strong you run out of rudder to straighten it out, and have to use differential thrust to straighten it out.
You don't know how scared you should have been until you see the ashen faced shaking flight attendants as you exit the aircraft. Many of us who have flown in the haboobs of the western US know we owe our lives to the skill of the drivers up front... and to a few guardian angels riding with us.
I always knew how I felt when I saw the flight attendants sit and seat belt in during mid flight..........
I am pretty sure those B52's needed the pivoting landing gear crosswind or no crosswind.
Heck of an aircraft though. In my career as an Aerospace Quality Assurance Engineer I worked with more than a few replacement parts for one.
