AJ
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A good day is that takeoffs equal landings!
Interesting landing today
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Doug M.
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When we used to do joint ops at Fairchild for their Open House, I was fascinated by the C5s and their touch and goes. Fighters showing off is one thing; we should not be surprised that they are agile. That big freighter though? Just wow.
I will never fly again; just got my kidney transplant and flying is discouraged due to exposure to random people. Our RV should be ready in a few months and that is how we will travel.
I will never fly again; just got my kidney transplant and flying is discouraged due to exposure to random people. Our RV should be ready in a few months and that is how we will travel.
AJ
US Veteran
Was on a Transac from MCAS Cherry Point, NC to MCAS Iwakuni, Japan. We were the lead Maintenance Crew with our aircraft. We were flying on a Marine Corps C-9. When we got to Wake Island, the airspace is basicily unrestricted. Our birds were doing some aerobatics. The Crew Chief on the C-9 came through putting loose gear in the overhead comparments and telling us to strap in tightly. He would not say why.......... All of a sudden the C-9 was doing some aerobatics. When we got on the ground we asked the pilot what was going on. The Col. said "I just wanted to show the little boys we could do it too, but slower". The landing was great!
Back in the early '70s when the C-5 first came out, one landed at Robins AFB for testing. Being as all our Buffs were in Guam--and most of the troops--they used our empty ramp to load several large rubber fuel bladders in the C-5 and proceeded to fill them with water, increasing the load until the C-5 about dragged the trees on takeoff. Then they parked on the ramp and pulled the bladder plugs. Water ran out for hours, giving the ramp a washdown. I don't know how much all that water weighed, but from my short time as a DOT weight inspector at a Florida weigh station, water is one of the loads most likely to put trucks overweight.
AJ
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Easy to figure as water weighs 8 pounds to the gallon. https://store.interstateproducts.co...8CM-j2M2lUtXg1nXUoWdEKBOz2lgbGdQGPhSndUfCkTGi For these bladders that is 160,000 per bladder.
The max payload of the C-5 is 281,001 pounds. https://www.google.com/search?q=pay...izk3ITXxBX0n74s5NyE1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 So that would be approx. 35,125 gallons.
I've experienced TOGA a couple times coming into Vegas, once diverting clear to Reno until the winds calmed. Rarely a smooth approach coming into McCarran. Glad things worked out for you.So as not to hijack the turbulence thread, I'll tell this here.
Flew back to Vegas today after a few days away. Skies around the city looked awful due to CA wildfire smoke and the pilot mentioned that it was windy. Approaching from the east it was no surprise that the ride was getting bumpy, SOP for Vegas after 1000 even on an otherwise calm day. As we went over the perimeter fence and then passed the threshold marking on the parallel runway, I noted two things. Fast and high.
Sink rate increased and we touched, but we were definitely further down the runway than normal. As this thought formed, the throttles got firewalled and back up we went. Rate of climb was impressive, but then I guess it would be on a modern jet getting light on fuel. Yep, our landing had turned into a touch and go. Pilot blamed a sudden change in the wind, but I'm not convinced. we did a long circle to get back to being lined up and we landed no problem at the second attempt.
I think this is the second or third go-around I've experienced at this airport. One the pilot got the glide angle all wrong, knew it early and was quickly on the intercom to apologize. The other time it was alleged that there was a runway incursion, or near incursion by a ground vehicle, but people were a bit more tight lipped about the whole deal.
Anyone else have any similar, "Hmm, what happened there?" type stories?
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AJ
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Sorry we were taught in electrician's mate school that water was heavier than fuel. We measured fuel loads in pounds. Guess it was just a rough measurment for a quick calculation. Even for a "weight & Balance" for catapult shots as far as I know the fuel was figured as 8 pounds to the gallon. They were only figuring approx. 60K pounds of weight on the cat stroke.
A bit off topic. Some time back I made a landing where false teeth, eye glasses, and anything loose wound up in the floor boards. I apologized to my wife.
A few days later I managed to land so smoothly that it was impossible to tell when the wheels touched. I asked my wife "How did you like that landing?"
She answered "I don't know, my eyes were closed."
A few days later I managed to land so smoothly that it was impossible to tell when the wheels touched. I asked my wife "How did you like that landing?"
She answered "I don't know, my eyes were closed."
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