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Re: An Impossible Landing
« Reply #15 on: February 25, 2011, 06:10:39 PM »
Between you two, how many efforts till you got it?
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Re: An Impossible Landing
« Reply #16 on: February 25, 2011, 06:22:13 PM »
Between you two, how many efforts till you got it?

First try. Ain't difficult at all. No bombs, 25% fuel, full flaps and you can hover in quite slowly




As you can see, I came in a tad too high. Could certainly do better next time.
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Re: An Impossible Landing
« Reply #17 on: February 25, 2011, 06:23:44 PM »
First try.  It was actually easier than you might think, you just have to make sure you set her down as early as possible.  You need as much room as you can to get all that weight to stop.

I was opposite, I actually came in a little low and had to give her throttle at the end, didn't have much room to spare here though:

EDIT: I didn't like the big blue hole on the waist gun, It needed something else.  :D

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Re: An Impossible Landing
« Reply #18 on: February 25, 2011, 06:40:22 PM »
First try. Ain't difficult at all. No bombs, 25% fuel, full flaps and you can hover in quite slowly

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As you can see, I came in a tad too high. Could certainly do better next time.

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Re: An Impossible Landing
« Reply #19 on: February 25, 2011, 07:05:52 PM »
First try. Ain't difficult at all. N bombs, 25% fuel, full flaps and you can hover in quite slowly

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As you can see, I came in a tad too high. Could certainly do better next time.

I see you have half of the AH staff with you. 
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Re: An Impossible Landing
« Reply #20 on: February 25, 2011, 07:09:04 PM »
I see you have half of the AH staff with you. 

Actually it's almost all of them. Only Pyro is missing  :banana:
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Re: An Impossible Landing
« Reply #21 on: February 25, 2011, 07:40:59 PM »
P.S. It was not in MA, so I did not actually fly for bish.

Whew thanks for clearing that up, I almost had a heart attack for a second there.

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Re: An Impossible Landing
« Reply #22 on: February 25, 2011, 08:01:55 PM »
Whew thanks for clearing that up, I almost had a heart attack for a second there.

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Re: An Impossible Landing
« Reply #23 on: February 25, 2011, 08:05:39 PM »
Actually it's almost all of them. Only Pyro is missing  :banana:

I thought the reasons he was not on that list is because he was your gunner?
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Re: An Impossible Landing
« Reply #24 on: February 25, 2011, 08:16:40 PM »
As taking off again is not an option anyway, I think it doesn't matter much that I wrecked my prop #4 in the process ;)

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By the way, next time the complaint "Our CVs are too small, the real ones were bigger" comes up again, I think I will just post this picture  :D
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Re: An Impossible Landing
« Reply #25 on: February 25, 2011, 08:20:46 PM »
I thought the reasons he was not on that list is because he was your gunner?

I rather think they still need one out of seven to do some work in the office, while the others merrily fly in circles  :noid
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Re: An Impossible Landing
« Reply #26 on: February 26, 2011, 12:10:33 AM »
I took off the CV.....on a B-29

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Re: An Impossible Landing
« Reply #27 on: February 26, 2011, 12:40:13 AM »
Those are some big flaps.
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Re: An Impossible Landing
« Reply #28 on: February 26, 2011, 04:22:47 AM »
I love the horrified look on Snailmans face in the waistguns window.  :lol


First try.  It was actually easier than you might think, you just have to make sure you set her down as early as possible.  You need as much room as you can to get all that weight to stop.

I was opposite, I actually came in a little low and had to give her throttle at the end, didn't have much room to spare here though:

EDIT: I didn't like the big blue hole on the waist gun, It needed something else.  :D

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