2:30 into the video, nice harrier landing with prevailing winds. That pilot was most likely assigned more flights then promoted.
I love how much the planes behave like birds landing like this. I see this sort of motion all the time by the seaside.
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My buddy crewed a cargo aircraft that scraped the nacelles on both left-side engines during a landing in the Azores. He called it a âgrey gooâ situation, but I donât think it had to do with self-replication.
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Heavy wind, yâall.
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The Azores? Not this oneâŠ
Wowâno, but that had to be quite the exciting flight. I note two things, 1) the article says they lost hydraulic power and therefore could not operate the main flaps. Technically, thereâs a hand-crank option for getting the flaps down, and while it blows serious chunks to use, itâll get them down albeit slowly. 2) The aircraft blew all eight tires for lack of tire and skid protection systems, which means hot and/or shredded brakes, which means an unholy shitstorm of work and getting that godamn hydro fluid everywhere. Kudos to the pilots for getting it down safely.
The incident I mentioned had to do with a KC-135R tanker landing in heavy crosswinds (and not the one in the linked video). I believe they were ferrying fighters across the Atlantic, so they didnât have much cargo onboard and their gas wouldâve been handed off to the fighters, resulting in a really light aircraft, relatively speaking. I think my buddy was mostly bummed because they had to spend another month there doing repairs. Lajes was never a calm landing, as I recall.
Yeah, when the chopper touches the deck, it hunkers down like my cat does when a large bird flies overhead. I didnât know my cat was as smart as a chopper⊠Impressive flying!
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