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Title: Crazy Russian landing
Post by: oakranger on March 02, 2010, 01:18:03 AM

Dam close call!  :O

http://www.machovideo.com/video/Very_close_call_17982/ (http://www.machovideo.com/video/Very_close_call_17982/)

Title: Re: Crazy Russian landing
Post by: Strip on March 02, 2010, 01:38:32 AM

Cant imagine what would have happened if that tail hook grabbed any of those wires....

I hit three of them but didn't catch!

:uhoh

Strip

Title: Re: Crazy Russian landing
Post by: lyric1 on March 02, 2010, 01:58:11 AM

Only missed the wire by inches.

Title: Re: Crazy Russian landing
Post by: Strip on March 02, 2010, 02:33:49 AM

It hit three of them....

Strip

Title: Re: Crazy Russian landing
Post by: oakranger on March 02, 2010, 10:02:37 AM

It did?!?!  How can you see them?

Title: Re: Crazy Russian landing
Post by: Strip on March 02, 2010, 12:08:26 PM

You can see the impact resulting in a spray of water as it hits the first three wires.

Strip

Title: Re: Crazy Russian landing
Post by: Maverick on March 02, 2010, 01:22:14 PM

Too hard to see if the hook actually contacted wires or skipped off of the deck in between them. Every time I tried to pause the clip the site dropped other video links onto the screen. If it did touch the wires it must have been on the flat of the hook behind the opening so that it didn't hook up. I doubt the plane would have been flyable had it hooked any of them and dropped to the deck.
 :headscratch:

Title: Re: Crazy Russian landing
Post by: oakranger on March 02, 2010, 01:48:13 PM

Quote from: Maverick on March 02, 2010, 01:22:14 PM

Too hard to see if the hook actually contacted wires or skipped off of the deck in between them. Every time I tried to pause the clip the site dropped other video links onto the screen. If it did touch the wires it must have been on the flat of the hook behind the opening so that it didn't hook up. I doubt the plane would have been flyable had it hooked any of them and dropped to the deck.
 :headscratch:

I was thinking of the same thing.  The cable would have prevent the jet to fly back up but to divert it left or right.  And the cable could have snap and hear it too. 

Title: Re: Crazy Russian landing
Post by: Denholm on March 02, 2010, 07:04:57 PM

Quite a plane and pilot to have exceeded the critical angle of attack for that amount of time and not enter a spin.

Title: Re: Crazy Russian landing
Post by: Yeager on March 02, 2010, 07:26:05 PM

Im not a naval aviator, but I play one on TV.  That right there was some funny chit  :cheers:

Title: Re: Crazy Russian landing
Post by: crazyivan on March 03, 2010, 10:38:03 AM

Quote from: Yeager on March 02, 2010, 07:26:05 PM

Im not a naval aviator, but I play one on TV.  That right there was some funny chit  :cheers:

(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h152/gloriacp22/carolyn/top_gun_maverick_tom_cruise_suited.jpg)

Title: Re: Crazy Russian landing
Post by: mechanic on March 03, 2010, 10:56:20 AM

Quote from: Strip on March 02, 2010, 12:08:26 PM

You can see the impact resulting in a spray of water as it hits the first three wires.

Strip

looks to me like that spray is caused by the jets powering up five feet off the deck pointing down ?