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Offline mbailey

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Re: Chunky Monkeys, Pencils and the Lockheed Electra
« Reply #15 on: April 01, 2015, 03:34:24 PM »
Want to tell your story of what happened when they landed? :x

Would love to hear it if you want to tell it sir!! :salute
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Re: Chunky Monkeys, Pencils and the Lockheed Electra
« Reply #16 on: April 01, 2015, 09:46:18 PM »
Well, they landed. :)

They touched down at about the mid-point of a 10,600' runway, shutdown all the engines and applied the emergency braking system which locked the main gear brakes, the sliding tires on both gear caught fire.  They were able to keep it on the runway until slowing enough to lose rudder control where the airplane veered left going off the left side of the runway.  As the burning main gear hit the soft dirt the wheel fires were mostly extinguished. Just as the aircraft was stopping the nose wheel dropped into ditch causing the airplane to jerk left and end up with the tail sticking up somewhat as you can see in the photos.  The crew deployed the slides and all exited, no injuries.  One of the photos I linked too shows the deformation on the interior of the fuselage above where the prop sliced through the belly.  Those in the back said they could see the airplane flexing while in flight.

Link to video of the landing.

The sound is not synched correctly to the video.  When the video is showing the first approach and go around you here radio traffic between the Shift Commander and I where I tell him I can see a large hole in the fuselage.  That conversation was when they first arrived overhead at about 6000'.
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Re: Chunky Monkeys, Pencils and the Lockheed Electra
« Reply #17 on: April 01, 2015, 10:19:10 PM »
I beg forgiveness, I know this is an Electra thread but I couldnt help myself.
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Re: Chunky Monkeys, Pencils and the Lockheed Electra
« Reply #18 on: April 01, 2015, 11:14:04 PM »
3350s sound much nicer than them stinky Allison turbines.
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Re: Chunky Monkeys, Pencils and the Lockheed Electra
« Reply #19 on: April 01, 2015, 11:54:07 PM »
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Re: Chunky Monkeys, Pencils and the Lockheed Electra
« Reply #20 on: April 02, 2015, 09:00:57 AM »
I beg forgiveness, I know this is an Electra thread but I couldnt help myself.
(Image removed from quote.)

What a beautiful plane, always will be.  the fuselage curved from nose to tail, not a straight edge on it.  I wonder if the fuselage acted as a lifting force with that shape and I also have to then wonder if the shape was that way to produce lift intentionally.

We had big fins on cars back then too!

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Re: Chunky Monkeys, Pencils and the Lockheed Electra
« Reply #21 on: April 04, 2015, 09:50:56 AM »
What a beautiful plane, always will be.  the fuselage curved from nose to tail, not a straight edge on it.  I wonder if the fuselage acted as a lifting force with that shape and I also have to then wonder if the shape was that way to produce lift intentionally.

We had big fins on cars back then too!

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:airplane: funny thing happened when they started designing Jet aircraft for the airlines! all the beauty in the aircraft when away, except the 747!
I realize they started having to play with drag consideration with the jets, but the big "iron" engine aircraft should were a lot prettier!
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Re: Chunky Monkeys, Pencils and the Lockheed Electra
« Reply #22 on: April 04, 2015, 03:05:48 PM »
:airplane: funny thing happened when they started designing Jet aircraft for the airlines! all the beauty in the aircraft when away, except the 747!
I realize they started having to play with drag consideration with the jets, but the big "iron" engine aircraft should were a lot prettier!

i think the shorter 737's look great.


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Re: Chunky Monkeys, Pencils and the Lockheed Electra
« Reply #23 on: April 04, 2015, 03:16:36 PM »
No gods or kings. Only Predator.

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Re: Chunky Monkeys, Pencils and the Lockheed Electra
« Reply #24 on: April 05, 2015, 12:22:32 AM »
"flying the aircraft of the Red Star"

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Re: Chunky Monkeys, Pencils and the Lockheed Electra
« Reply #25 on: April 05, 2015, 07:44:56 AM »


We had a sign in the nose of the B-24:  Jets are for kids
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Re: Chunky Monkeys, Pencils and the Lockheed Electra
« Reply #26 on: April 05, 2015, 12:04:17 PM »
No gods or kings. Only Predator.

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Re: Chunky Monkeys, Pencils and the Lockheed Electra
« Reply #28 on: April 05, 2015, 12:59:17 PM »
No, the Wellington was beautiful by comparison to that thing. The Armstrong Whitworth Whitley.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Whitworth_Whitley
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Re: Chunky Monkeys, Pencils and the Lockheed Electra
« Reply #29 on: April 07, 2015, 07:41:55 AM »
No, the Wellington was beautiful by comparison to that thing. The Armstrong Whitworth Whitley.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Whitworth_Whitley
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