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| Thread ID: 136750 | 2014-04-10 20:35:00 | 35 Knot crosswind landing in a 767 | WalOne (4202) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1372396 | 2014-04-10 20:35:00 | Click HERE (www.aviationvideos.co) Amazing - but comforting to know the undercarriage and tyres can stand up to this sort of punishment ... :eek: (35 knots = 65 kms) |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1372397 | 2014-04-10 22:59:00 | Probably one reason why the tyres on aircraft are never fully inflated :) | Zippity (58) | ||
| 1372398 | 2014-04-11 03:30:00 | Probably one reason why the tyres on aircraft are never fully inflated :) Are you sure about that?? Underinflated tyres have the risk of coming off the rims or blowing out, don't they? |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1372399 | 2014-04-11 05:09:00 | Amazing - but comforting to know the undercarriage and tyres can stand up to this sort of punishment ... I don't care, I am still not flying via Wellington!!! :eek: :eek: Who is actually flying the plane in conditions like this, the pilot or the computer? |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 1372400 | 2014-04-11 05:25:00 | that film clip isn't Wellington :) Large aircraft tires are made of rubber, steel belts, etc like a car tire. They are inflated with pure nitrogen to about 200 pounds per square inch (13 1/2 atmospheres). They have to be replaced pretty frequently, like every 400 flights, as they wear heavily with each landing. A 747 has 16 main gear tires (an A380 has 18). The 747-8 will weigh 970,000 pounds at max takeoff weight. That's (ignoring nose gear) about 60,000 pounds per tire. At 200 pounds per square inch, then, each tire needs to have 300 square inches on the ground. The tires are quite large- about 52 inch diameter- and over a foot wide in order to have that big a footprint. |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 1372401 | 2014-04-11 06:45:00 | I don't care, I am still not flying via Wellington!!! :eek: :eek: Who is actually flying the plane in conditions like this, the pilot or the computer? I think the Pilot was a woman, or a woman computer! ;) Actually, I was once at the Tauranga Airport on my way to Aus (via Ak) and this woman pilot turned up to take us to Ak. Anyway, I must have announced my fear a bit loud saying something like "Holy Christ, a woman driver" to which came a reply from a guy standing beside me "Well thank Christ they don't have to back these things". To top things off we landed on the most distant runway from the terminal and taxied to the most remote parking space to disembark. Made me wonder if the "Authorities" were erring on the side of caution. :D |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1372402 | 2014-04-11 07:04:00 | Man, talk about a bouncy landing. The poor passengers. | Jen (38) | ||
| 1372403 | 2014-04-11 10:15:00 | Man, talk about a bouncy landing. The poor passengers. I've had one of those landings at Wellington and the plane went every which way before leveling out just before the wheels hit. On another occasion I was watching a 767 take off and a mighty lateral wind gust hit it when it was only just airborne. It got a greater than 30 degrees tilt and I genuinely thought it was going to go over on its back, but the pilot caught it and climbed out like nothing had happened. I wouldn't want to have seen the state of his undies after that though, I was literally terrified and I was safe in the terminal! Cheers Billy 8-{) :horrified |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1372404 | 2014-04-11 10:17:00 | Nice ... nothing better than an bit of rock'n'roll | SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1372405 | 2014-04-12 09:18:00 | They have to be replaced pretty frequently, like every 400 flights, as they wear heavily with each landing. I have always wondered why they don't use an 'air turbine' feature (or similar) in/on the hubs to spin the wheel up to a reasonable speed during the landing approach, or have some other means to get it rotating. It would cut down on tire wear/changes and reduce the risk of blowouts on landing. Cheers Billy 8-{) :illogical |
Billy T (70) | ||
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