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Offline 1Cane

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Belly landing with ordinance
« on: February 19, 2018, 12:18:54 PM »
I seriously doubt the belly landing with ordinance was survive :banana:able
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Re: Belly landing with ordinance
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2018, 12:22:32 PM »
Most if not all bombs need to travel 1000' through the air, before they become armed.  Not much of a problem there. (unless there's a fire perhaps)
Rockets?  Who knows?

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Re: Belly landing with ordinance
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2018, 02:12:46 PM »
If the bomb or rocket isn't armed it probably wouldn't be an issue.  There are videos/pics of bombs and rockets coming off Navy aircraft landing on carriers and the ord goes skipping down the deck without exploding.

Military explosives tend to be fairly insensitive to random shocks, etc.

But given a choice I'd drop that crap in some farmers field before landing if I could.
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Re: Belly landing with ordinance
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2018, 09:06:20 PM »
I seriously doubt the belly landing with ordinance was survive :banana:able
I also meant to say drop tanks
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Re: Belly landing with ordinance
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2018, 11:17:06 PM »
I also meant to say drop tanks

People have landed on drop tanks before (without blowing up).
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Re: Belly landing with ordinance
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2018, 11:30:59 AM »
People have landed on drop tanks before (without blowing up).

Except in the movies....everything blows up in the movies.
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Re: Belly landing with ordinance
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2018, 12:42:07 PM »
We had an F-16 land on their center line quite a few years ago. It didn’t go .

Sometimes it’s not always practical to punch bags or armament because of the aircrafts proximity to civilians.

Just dealt with a T-38 here in Texas where a pilot made the ultimate sacrifice to avoid collateral civilian damage.




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Re: Belly landing with ordinance
« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2018, 03:14:18 PM »
Except in the movies....everything blows up in the movies.


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Re: Belly landing with ordinance
« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2018, 03:19:42 PM »
We had an F-16 land on their center line quite a few years ago. It didn’t go .

Sometimes it’s not always practical to punch bags or armament because of the aircrafts proximity to civilians.

Just dealt with a T-38 here in Texas where a pilot made the ultimate sacrifice to avoid collateral civilian damage.




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I'm vaguely recalling a story of a guy who landed a Skyraider on the wing pylon-mounted drop tanks to save the airplane.

I also remember a story relayed to me by a former instructor of mine.   He was a Marine F-4 RIO and had flown a ridiculous number of missions in Vietnam.   I mean a LOT.

Any how, he said that in happier times guys were always wanting to "look cool" when they took off so some of these enterprising individuals got into the habit of selecting the gear handle up once lined up for takeoff.   The weight on wheels would keep them from moving until the airplane rotated at which time the gear would suck up into the wells a few inches off the ground.   

Well, one guy rotated a little too early and the gear went up as advertised but the jet came back down onto the drop tanks.  *Scrape*  *Scrape*  *Munch*  *Squeal*  *Scrape*  *Woosh!*   Back into the air and around the pattern for a nice Come-to-Jesus Meeting with the C.O.    Result: "Find another way to look cool - this practice is banned."

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Re: Belly landing with ordinance
« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2018, 04:24:31 PM »
The "1000 ft arming on Aces High" is for a set  distance to keep it simple. Having loaded more bombs on  F4-B Phantom's ( USMC)during the Viet Nam war than I care to remember, I will say this, the fuses can be set to different times to go off. It's the revolutions on the spinner that lines up the inside to arm it.   We used snake eye fins to retard the fall so the pilots could drop low and get out before the bomb exploded. Belly landing with ordnance is a bad idea even if the bombs are not armed. I guess the game is designed so you don't have to worry about it. One more thing, the spinner on the fuse had a wire run through one of the blades and the wire run through a blade that was stationary and attached to the bomb rack, so it would not spin till released

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Re: Belly landing with ordinance
« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2018, 07:54:58 PM »