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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Nemisis on January 07, 2010, 10:58:35 PM
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Post stories of the hardest, or most crazy landings you've made.
My top landing would have to be when I set a Lanc down on a carrier. I had got my fuel tanks holed and so I couldn't make it back to a base. I was gona bail when I should happen to see a CV 1/2 a sector away. Lowered flaps, gear, and slowed to 100 mph, and when I touched down, the right wing got torn off by the island.
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Nemisis is back! :neener:
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Wel my hardest landing was in a real aircraft. A Cessna 150 with those old spring steel legs. I bounced so high that the next hit would have been considered a crash. So I firewalled the throttle and fled back to my home airport hoping no one had seen it. :joystick: :airplane:
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Hit a stupid supply truck... In game of course. Those guys need driving lessons.
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Missing both of my wing tips and one of my landing gear in a la-7 I came towards the field. I slowed to 200 about 20ft off the runway and popped my 1 gear down and slammed strait down to break the gear and hopefully slow down enough to stop on the runway, I do this and to my amazement I stop on the runway. I only had one kill but it felt like I landed 10.
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A successful landing of a 262 on a carrier with one engine, no elevators, and no ailerons.
Strip
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landing an ar234 on a cv, on first impact I was too fast, I broke the tail section off the plane, it went STRAIGHT up, and then pointed down and landed smoothly on the cv deck.
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(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff169/banshee7_2007/190A52.jpg)
Wasn't hard, but it wasn't fun! Flew that way for a sector and a half...landed 8 kills, too :) IIRC I was winging up with some 71st guys that day.
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was laughing at someone who crashed, I hit a tree bounced of the ground and landed on top of the building at the rearm pad.
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So far mine is the only one believable...I have pics!!! :P
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probably one of the roughest landings I've had in a while
(http://i603.photobucket.com/albums/tt118/phatzo/ahss46-1-1.jpg)
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So far mine is the only one believable...I have pics!!! :P
I think I deleted mine, I empty the pics folder every 3 months or so.
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Mine was when I forgot to put the gear down in a Cessna 172RG. It was a really good landing, if I had just put the gaer down, it was really embarrasing, and really HARD to taxi, but is sure was easy to unload.
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So far mine is the only one believable...I have pics!!! :P
This one sucked. If it had been perked I would have lost the points.
(http://pcspray.com/pics/thrush.jpg)
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Holy @#$@!!!! The life of a crop duster pilot...
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I hit the ground at 650mph in a dora once.
Does that count as a landing?
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have to have recived a "you have succesfully landed" message, or a "You have bailed succesfully bailed" with your wheels on the ground.
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"You have bailed succesfully bailed" with your wheels on the ground.
:headscratch:
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I wasnt the pilot but i was in the nose gun at the time. My squad was assigned to B-25 Cs in FSO and after i got shot down i was gunning for a squaddie who was missing both elevators, an aileron, and the nose wheel. We flew 2 and a half sectors in this condition, missed a bridge at the end of the runway by about 10 feet and crashed on the runway. :O
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ive balanced (literally) many planes on the runway cause i was missing one of my wing (left/right) gears
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:headscratch:
errr, I mean ditched.
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Back in the day, most of you remember when you were able to land a plane over 180 KIAS with gear up. One of my fondest memories was upping a LA-5/7 with SCEVA on a base that was being attacked. We would get 3-4 kills real quick then instead of worrying about being picked on landing we would enter the pattern at about 300 Knots. Touch down gear up and slide to a halt quickly and tower before the NME could vulch us. It was called.. The SCEVA Slide :) This of course then progressed to any plane we flew and for a couple months I never once used my gear to land.
Imagine my suprise when I took a break for a couple years and came back and tried to do it... REJECTED!!!! :)
I wouldn't call this a "Hard" landing, but it took a little bit of finesse to insure you didn't get the nose down too far and auger. Good Times
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I've had some crazy T-37 landings... I twice landed with crosswinds well beyond the aircraft limits, so I still landed in a bit of a crab even though I had full rudder input. I ended up landing at an angle to the runway so I didn't damage anything, and had to engage the nosewheel steering at around 110 knots. For those of you who have never flown a T-37, normally you never engage the nosewheel steering above around 30 knots because it is very twitchy and it's easy to lose control.
Another time, my (Italian) student was unable to get the words "the brakes don't work" out of his mouth during a landing. It was a no-flap landing on a hot day with high crosswinds, and I let him go too far before taking the controls. We had already landed unusually fast due to the high density altitude and crosswinds, and the plane just didn't slow down. I kept telling him to slow down and finally took control of the plane with only 1500' ft of runway remaining and the plane still doing about 80 knots (double the speed we should have been going at that time). I can leg-press over 400 lbs, and I applied all of that pressure to the brakes. 400+ lbs of pressure on the brakes, and... nothing happened. There must have been an air bubble or something in the brake lines because not a darn thing happened. I ended up swinging wide, again engaging the nose wheel steering at a speed far far above normal speeds, and trusted in the wide landing gear of the mighty tweet to keep us from flipping over. We took the sharp 90-degree turn from the runway to the taxiway at 75 or 80 knots, and headed downhill on the taxiway. The plane was sliding a bit like a rally car in the turn and halfway through the turn I felt a little bump as the left main landing gear tire bumped over the runway end identifier lights, so we were inches away from driving through the overrun. After getting onto the taxiway, I released the brake pressure, let the plane coast a bit (still going over 70 knots on a taxiway designed for 25 knot taxi speeds) and cautiously re-applied the brakes. And of course they worked just fine this time. I couldn't even write up the brakes as manfunctioning because they worked just fine afterwards. I checked the tires expecting to see that I had stripped away a few layers of tire tread, but the tires (the nice goodyears, not the crappy aviator brand ones) had only some faint angled scratches in them after the very high speed turn.
I had some brake failures in the F-15E, but those were caused by landing too smoothly so the weight-on-wheels switches didn't get depressed. The plane thought it was still flying and kept the brakes disabled. Those were exciting.
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In the game, my favorite weird landing was waaaay back in the days when we were playing WB in the square symmetric island terrain arena (my favorite ever WB arena BTW). The aero code had just been tweaked, and while the planes flew more realistically, there were some unexpected side effects. I had a wing shot off of my zeke, but I discovered that the plane would still barely fly knife-edge. I flew around for a while experimenting with how much control I still had, and found that the plane would fly with the gear down. Not only that, if I nudged the stick forward a bit, the negative AOA would push the remaining wing down until the plane was level again. So I flew down very close to the runway, put the gear down, nudged the stick forward, and landed 3 kills with only one wing remaining on my plane.
The best part - I got at least 2 assists AFTER the wing was shot off because I spent some time flying through furballs, acting as bait for a few fellow squadron members. The other color players would run after me thinking I would be an easy kill, and they'd totally miss the 5 or 6 flying pigs who were flying a few thousand feet above me. I think we bagged a dozen greedy players that way before I went back and made my landing.
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It would be anytime I'm in a Spit that gets half it's wing shot off, having the use of only one arm makes landing quite a task since with half a wing gone your using heavy rudder and also having then to let go of the stick to drop throttle when on approach.
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It would be anytime I'm in a Spit that gets half it's wing shot off, having the use of only one arm makes landing quite a task since with half a wing gone your using heavy rudder and also having then to let go of the stick to drop throttle when on approach.
Could you map the engine control key to a button on the joystick, so you could just kill the motor with one press of a button?
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how's this?
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/1LTCAP/4.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/1LTCAP/lookinbad1.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/1LTCAP/lookinbad2.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/1LTCAP/lookinbad4.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/1LTCAP/lookinbad5.jpg)
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Could you map the engine control key to a button on the joystick, so you could just kill the motor with one press of a button?
Yeah I do that for AHXARL when I need to play with the throttle, but in the MA I really don't have the 2 buttons to spare.
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Mine would be the time i was in a p38 missing half a wing. I somehow managed to skid arcoss the top of the indestructible, flew off it onto the ground and landed on the main pad. :joystick:
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Back in the day, most of you remember when you were able to land a plane over 180 KIAS with gear up. One of my fondest memories was upping a LA-5/7 with SCEVA on a base that was being attacked. We would get 3-4 kills real quick then instead of worrying about being picked on landing we would enter the pattern at about 300 Knots. Touch down gear up and slide to a halt quickly and tower before the NME could vulch us. It was called.. The SCEVA Slide :) This of course then progressed to any plane we flew and for a couple months I never once used my gear to land.
Imagine my suprise when I took a break for a couple years and came back and tried to do it... REJECTED!!!! :)
I wouldn't call this a "Hard" landing, but it took a little bit of finesse to insure you didn't get the nose down too far and auger. Good Times
Ah yes the ole sceva slide good times indeed.
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had newest landing just yesterday, was defending the field from GV attack, got turreted and was heading back to base. I didn't see the convoy or hear the warnings, got fliped up into the air, flew to the rearm pad, and landed upright on the building.
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Back in the day, most of you remember when you were able to land a plane over 180 KIAS with gear up. One of my fondest memories was upping a LA-5/7 with SCEVA on a base that was being attacked. We would get 3-4 kills real quick then instead of worrying about being picked on landing we would enter the pattern at about 300 Knots. Touch down gear up and slide to a halt quickly and tower before the NME could vulch us. It was called.. The SCEVA Slide :) This of course then progressed to any plane we flew and for a couple months I never once used my gear to land.
Imagine my suprise when I took a break for a couple years and came back and tried to do it... REJECTED!!!! :)
I wouldn't call this a "Hard" landing, but it took a little bit of finesse to insure you didn't get the nose down too far and auger. Good Times
I use to do the same thing, landed wheels up for a long time when I first started playing mainly because I had no rudder controls, then they changed the speed at which you could do that so I had to learn to land wheels down, plus buy a stick with rudder twist.
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lol, does everyone have rudder pedals or joysticks with rudder twist? All I have is a mouse, keyboard, and a joystick.
I managed to find my lanc picture. It was sitting in an old CD with my AH2 pics on it. I should really clean out my computer desk. Found one of the stuka one too.
Was kind of a tard with the lanc. I led the 190 in the photo to the CV which led to endless waves of B25's, and lancs hitting us.
(http://<a href="http://s871.photobucket.com/albums/ab276/Nemisis001/?action-view¤t=ahss6-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i871.photobucket.com/albums/ab276/Nemisis001/ahss6-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>)
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i landed one of my .40 sized r/c models in nearly 20mph crosswind.....the wingtip was scraping the ground before either of the mains touched......
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I had a hard landing at the work christmas party last year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTZ5rRzggQk