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Pilot's pucker time
discusdad
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I must have sucked the entire seat up my butt! Never saw such conditions. Wind, fog, ice, mountains...[:0]
video of airliners landing in severe crosswinds. PUCKER FACTOR of 9
Wow!
At 2:05, did a bird coming from right to left, get sucked into the engine?
When my youngest son was learning to fly his teacher was teaching him how to crab in a crosswind. My wife didn't know anything about it and she got really upset when he was coming in sideways like that. She thought he was about to crash and she was already headed out on the runway toward the plane when I grabbed her and told her to calm down they're doing it on purpose.
P3: No I was a navigator on Airlift Command Air Force C-130-E out of Charleston,SC and McGuire, NJ. Sometimes we had cargo from Hickam to Midway. Sometimes on way back from Vietnam thru Japan - Elmandorf we had cargo for Midway from Japan. You call, we haul.
Adak Alaska...1993. Wow.
I must have sucked the entire seat up my butt! Never saw such conditions. Wind, fog, ice, mountains...[:0]
I think it was Anchorage I landed in We came in straight then hit the Ice. Was not good looking down the wing at the Runway.
Adak Alaska...1993. Wow.
I must have sucked the entire seat up my butt! Never saw such conditions. Wind, fog, ice, mountains...[:0]
We routinely landed in Adak in whiteout conditions. GCA could talk us right down to the ground. I sat at the starboard aft (Station 9) window. The flight station would have me watch for the ground so they could flare.
I could usually spot the runway at six to eight feet above it.[:0]
The worst I ever had was a 50 kt crosswind at Midway Island. The first attempt was a go-around, then the older, experienced co-pilot took command. He headed into the wind then right at the approach end of the runway snapped it left and put it down. It was pretty scary. You could not hold the right wing down in that wind.
I was on a Bear Trap crew and we had a few Pony Express operations on Midway. The C-130's were the sea water scoopers. Is that what you did?
ADDENDUM Navc-130: That's sounds like a cool job. My first weather RON was to Elmendorf. 1981 I think. Flipped me out the AF had cable TV in transit barracks. I saw MTV for the first time and Tina Turner doing "What's Love Got to Do With It. The box lunches their galley packed were great too.
The Midway stuff was a joint operation Navy/AF monitoring Soviet ICBM tests. I think there were two or three AF C-130's involved doing their thing.
It was a lot of fun on Midway. I found a hundred pounds of linotype from a torn down print shop I brought back to make bullets.
Lots of fun in those days.[:)]
Obviously we knew it was an interesting landing, but I was up in the top deck, and we did not feel anything wrong after the hard hit and directional correction as the front gear was brought down.
Did not know of the lost tires until the delay of the next flight for that plane was announced.
Brad Steele
Wow!
At 2:05, did a bird coming from right to left, get sucked into the engine?
Holy Cow! I think you're right. Goes by the left engine and just disappears!
the B52 lands different. it can move the wheels cattywompus[:D] to help the angle of wind direction Their gear can be turned 20 degrees from centerline during landing or takeoff, giving a heavily loaded one the ability to handle a 90 degree crosswind of close to 50 mph. Pretty freaky to see the first time.
Because of this ground movements are also impressive during really fast alert launches. That 20 degree pivot is with the rear gear. When you combine it with the 50+ degree steering of their front gear those big airplanes can make turns like dirt track racers.