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| Thread ID: 128791 | 2013-01-15 20:04:00 | Real Top Guns RAAF F-111 Belly Landing | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
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| 1322930 | 2013-01-15 20:04:00 | If you're into special aeroplanes 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 the American Air Force. The aeroplane 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 aeroplane was designed to be landed it felt just fine inside the aeroplane, 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. Hope that you enjoy the video. Quite spectacular. youtube.googleapis.com |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1322931 | 2013-01-15 20:27:00 | Very nicely done -- Didn't look like much damage either. :thumbs: | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1322932 | 2013-01-15 20:32:00 | Good video Roscoe | Whenu (9358) | ||
| 1322933 | 2013-01-15 20:45:00 | Wow that was amazing, thanks Roscoe | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1322934 | 2013-01-15 20:56:00 | Nice landing - the understatement of the year! Thanks Roscoe. | WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1322935 | 2013-01-15 21:48:00 | Good video. An F111 crashed in the Hauraki Gulf in New Zealand on 25Oct1978 after a fire started in the main wheel well during a fuel dump. The crew escaped in the Crew Module, which acted as a ‘life-boat’ when they landed on the water. (The control columns then acted as a ‘bilge pump’!) :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1322936 | 2013-01-16 01:41:00 | Have to admit, I dont know a great deal about flying/landing etc, but why opt to land on a tar seal runway and not on the grass strip? I would have thought the risk of sparks and fire would have been higher on a seal runway. Very well done though, and very lucky. Thanks for sharing. |
Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1322937 | 2013-01-16 01:55:00 | The runway is flat and they know it is flat. Any bumps in the grass could flip the plane cause a much bigger crash. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 1322938 | 2013-01-16 05:05:00 | The other reason they didn't land on the grass was because, if they did they could not of used the arrester cable to slow them down. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1322939 | 2013-01-16 05:13:00 | Amazing that no foam was laid on the runway. | Zippity (58) | ||
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