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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: humble on March 20, 2009, 01:30:53 AM
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no clue if this belongs here or in the O club...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eamnTyfkUBY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eamnTyfkUBY)
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Film is no longer available.
I have a feeling the video is the same video of me trying to land a Ta152, I streamline it very gingerly by removing the tail, gear, and prop before scraping to a stop.
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Wow whoever thought of putting an exercise ball in the middle as landing gear :rofl
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No wonder that one guy got shot down in the '60s... Probably didn't wanna get killed landing that thing and took his chances with a SAM. :O
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No wonder that one guy got shot down in the '60s... Probably didn't wanna get killed landing that thing and took his chances with a SAM. :O
Francis Gary Powers?
Kids... geeze.
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LoL. At the 2:17 mark one of the Z28 chase cars either looses it, or the guy E-Brakes it and whips a toejamty.
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Wow hope they fired the person that designed that plane seriously.. :eek: Also whats the deal with them patting him down like hes under arrest?
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Well that is just freakin miserable. I am withdrawling my request to fly that plane...
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LOL. Mix a long-winged jet-powered (no prop blast over the rudder) tail-dragger with a pilot trained in a tricycle gear jet and hang on. <G>
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Wow hope they fired the person that designed that plane seriously.. :eek: Also whats the deal with them patting him down like hes under arrest?
Humor? Did you see the way he was weaving all over the place? FWI.
wrongway
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Humor? Did you see the way he was weaving all over the place? FWI.
wrongway
:rofl
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Humor? Did you see the way he was weaving all over the place? FWI.
wrongway
Beer Run gone a rye! or last sortie of the night :rofl
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I wonder how much money each botched landing/takeoff cost :eek:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bibAhb_0Qs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bibAhb_0Qs)
We need Chase GV's
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I was stationed at Osan AB, ROK in the early '80's...we would park at the end of the runway just to watch those birds land. It was always an interesting show...though nothing like that film. You would be amazed at how loud that jet is
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My understanding is that those are initial landings of prospective U-2 pilots. Obviously its a very tough bird to land but those are 1st landing attempts. none of the planes was significantly damaged and all flew again within 24 hours...
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You must have ComCast..... Works just fine.
Film is no longer available.
Common problem with the U2. Doesn't fly well low, or at low speeds. Needless to say, landing incorporates both of those things.
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LoL. At the 2:17 mark one of the Z28 chase cars either looses it, or the guy E-Brakes it and whips a noodlesty.
Just before the chase car loses it-
(http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii244/AHhub/ohnoodles.png)
ROR
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Wow hope they fired the person that designed that plane seriously.. :eek:
That would have been a shame because the SR-71 Blackbird as it is known today would not exist. Personally I'm partial to his P-38 design :)
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That would have been a shame because the SR-71 Blackbird as it is known today would not exist. Personally I'm partial to his P-38 design :)
hehehehe back in the day when "Slide Rulzzzzz"
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Thats how i land. :aok
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Wow hope they fired the person that designed that plane seriously.. :eek:
I'm glad they didn't.
Clarence L.(Kelly) Johnson the greatest aircraft designer ever.
Here's his Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_L._Johnson
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Avaro your right Skunkworks doesnt make that great of planes :D
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Yea.. Pile up on Avaro for making a valid comment. :P Its like riding a bike with one training will It just doesn't work correctly.. :D
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You must have ComCast..... Works just fine.
Doesn't fly well low, or at low speeds.
Huh? Everything flies better at lower altitudes, and with those great long wings I'm thinking it's a pretty easy jet to handle at low speed. One of those go arounds from a bounce looked pretty solid, he just pitched up and climbed away. I've always read it's a race after liftoff to keep pulling the nose up to prevent exceeding gear retraction speed.
The problem with the landings is the landing gear configuration. It's a centerline gear taildragger. Sheesh, my feet are twitching just thinking about the dance you'd be doing to keep that thing lined up!! No prop blast to keep the rudder effective, and because of the centerline gear you can't use braking to help with directional control. Yeesh.
On one of those landings where the jet goes off the right side you'll notice the pilot is holding right (wrong) rudder until he's pointed well off runway heading when he finally gets some left rudder in.
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Because this is a glider with a jet engine, it is and was designed from the ground up to land,like a glider.
Till the stop, after that wing touches ground, its all about stoping quickly while keeping her serviceable.
Hmm stoping while keeping her serviceable, that's alot like pulling out before baking a kid. :rock
no rolling over, all good to go.
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Yea.. Pile up on Avaro for making a valid comment. :P Its like riding a bike with one training will It just doesn't work correctly.. :D
Training wheel? We don't need on steenking training wheel.
(http://www.bikeforest.com/large_wheel_unicycle.jpg)
wrongway
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How about an added degree of difficulty?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_3WeYXDKQ0&feature=related
(http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/u2/carrier_01.jpg)
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How about an added degree of difficulty?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_3WeYXDKQ0&feature=related
(http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/u2/carrier_01.jpg)
lol much better..
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Out of curiosity, why was the gear actually designed like that? Why didn't it have gear like the starfighter?
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Weight, every once on the U2 is critical.
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Out of curiosity, why was the gear actually designed like that? Why didn't it have gear like the starfighter?
Oh thats easy, americans like to make things more difficult :D