View Full Version : Unbelievable bit of flying skill
Bobinovich
18-Jun-10, 20:47
Just watched this clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y90vnB6gUME) on Oops TV & had to share - incredible piece of nerve & skill :eek:
Whew! A Rather Lucky Pilot that, just was not his day to die.
Hmmmm, tosh & bunkum methinks.
Nope, genuine I believe-very lucky and very skilful. Could only be done in a stunt plane with a massively overpowered engine. :cool:
You don't really need aerodynamics when you have a 10-1 thrust to weight ratio
If you believe thats real then you will believe any old tosh,Bob i`m dissapointed. Mik.:roll:
You don't really need aerodynamics when you have a 10-1 thrust to weight ratio
You need a little to counter the asymmetric thrust, loosing a wing is only going to counter the right rudder yer putting in.
With a 10/1 power ratio I would expect to see a far better landing than that.
The Drunken Duck
18-Jun-10, 22:19
If that clip is real, and I am not sure it is, they need to get that Pilot in the RAF, some Pilots there could do with some landing advice (the clip starts at ten seconds in).. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB5CXlEALJ0&feature=related
:eek: .. :roll:
Metalattakk
18-Jun-10, 22:33
Just watched this clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y90vnB6gUME) on Oops TV & had to share - incredible piece of nerve & skill :eek:
Hot pish! :eek:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/onewing.asp
If that clip is real, and I am not sure it is, they need to get that Pilot in the RAF, some Pilots there could do with some landing advice (the clip starts at ten seconds in).. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB5CXlEALJ0&feature=related
:eek: .. :roll:
No tea and medals for that chappie then. 'altimeter chec.....ohh....'
Where were the crash team?? At home? And why does the first foam line appear to come from downwind...hmm thread drift.
Nice shot-but in reality -utter tripe- I have had the unfortunate reality of being there when such a unfortunate circumstance came up! One aircraft shed a wing- tother one a tail-curtains for all involved. Young lads an all friends of mine. An to make it more awful-the instructor in the two seater happened to have his very pregnant wife standing next to me.-- don't happen much worse than that---:(
Bobinovich
18-Jun-10, 23:24
http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/onewing.asp
Aww bummer :roll:
FAKE....two different paint jobs and the wings are further forward on the plane thats filmed in the air compared to the one on the ground
the previous clip is obviously fake,
but this clip is one of the most amazing feats of aquatic aeronautical landings (aside from the recent NY one) that i have ever seen.
the look of relief on the passengers faces brings tears to my eyes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnIwEjboo94
The Drunken Duck
19-Jun-10, 00:15
There has been a genuine example of an aircraft being landed with just one wing, the Israeli's had an F-15 land with just one wing after a mid air collision.
It was covered in a History Channel programme .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk1KBQ96_DI .. pretty amazing pic's towards the end of the clip.
The Drunken Duck
19-Jun-10, 00:24
No tea and medals for that chappie then. 'altimeter chec.....ohh....'
Where were the crash team?? At home? And why does the first foam line appear to come from downwind...hmm thread drift.
That happened at Kandahar so not sure about the Crash Crews, if they were RAF though they would probably have been playing Volleyball !! .. check out the tail surfaces just before impact, the nose is coming up but the tailerons aren't moving at all. Looks like a Hyd fail or something, Harrier pilots have huge ego's but even they won take on the ground expecting to win !!
That happened at Kandahar so not sure about the Crash Crews, if they were RAF though they would probably have been playing Volleyball !! .. check out the tail surfaces just before impact, the nose is coming up but the tailerons aren't moving at all. Looks like a Hyd fail or something, Harrier pilots have huge ego's but even they won take on the ground expecting to win !!
Definitely something wrong with the flare, but I dunno much about landing a Harrier. Also watching it through a bucket of Guinness somewhat blurs my AAIB vision.
There has been a genuine example of an aircraft being landed with just one wing, the Israeli's had an F-15 land with just one wing after a mid air collision.
It was covered in a History Channel programme .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk1KBQ96_DI .. pretty amazing pic's towards the end of the clip.
cheers Duck, an amazing story and proof it can be done, in a quality plane....
obviously too expensive a plane to eject from !!
hats off to the pilot, serious piece of flying there
in a quality plane....
Pah!
Big lumbering jalopies they are.
sassylass
19-Jun-10, 03:34
Nice shot-but in reality -utter tripe- I have had the unfortunate reality of being there when such a unfortunate circumstance came up! One aircraft shed a wing- tother one a tail-curtains for all involved. Young lads an all friends of mine. An to make it more awful-the instructor in the two seater happened to have his very pregnant wife standing next to me.-- don't happen much worse than that---:(
oh my gawd that's awful
Forget the fakes.......check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtnL4KYVtDE
The Drunken Duck
19-Jun-10, 11:04
Best bit of flying skill I can remember was the ditching of the Nimrod in 1995 by a guy called Art Stacey, the operating manual stated that if ditched, and because mainly of the shape, the best guess was that a Nimrod would basically dig in and sink but he got the aircraft down on the water that day and got all seven crew out safely. How he did it is all the more incredible because when the aircraft was ditched it was weakened by a fire that was eating through the starboard wing and basically cutting it like a blowtorch while also seriously weakening the rear fuselage. No one had ever tried to ditch a Nimrod before that day.
The aircraft departed on an airtest after a major service. It had been stripped down and completely rebuilt and this was the shake down flight to make sure it worked as advertised. It departed and hung about the local area a bit before going out to the North East of Kinloss for some low level work over the sea. Lossiemouth ATC alerted us shortly after that the aircraft had declared an Emergency and was heading for them, the closest base. Then the crew came up on the Ops freq and told us the same. There had been an indication of fire in the starboard wing. Rear end crew had confirmed visual signs of fire and smoke from between the engines in the wing. It was found out later that a starter motor used for engine start had not shut down properly, had then oversped, thrown a blade and punctured a fuel tank which started a fire between the engines. The Extinguishers failed to put out the fire. Engine fires are particulary dangerous on Nimrods as the engines are buried in the wing root right where the wing joins the airframe. As the aircraft headed for Lossie the Captain, Art Stacey, realised that from what the back end crew were telling him in all probability the aircraft structure would fail before reaching Lossie and he decided to ditch the aircraft, when the crew called up and said this over the Ops freq everyone within earshot reckoned they would not survive, the Ops Officer, a Pilot, was just shaking his head and actually told me to start getting the Next of Kin details for the crew. All we could say to them was "Roger, Listening out .. Good Luck". The aircraft ditched a few minutes later just a couple of miles short of Lossiemouth if memory serves me right. Art would have been well aware of the advice about doing that but he didn't hesitate, he made the choice early, gave himself time, briefed the crew well and landed that aircraft on a (luckily) calm sea and saved the lives of the crew. They were recovered from the water by the Lossie SAR Helo which was airborne over Lossie airfield on a training mission within a few minutes, and with no serious injuries to the crew. I saw him about six hours later after he arrived back at Kinloss and he was amazingly calm, even joking about it. The aircraft was still floating at this point but it eventually sank and was then salvaged for the Inquiry.
And for you conspiracy theorists, the serial of the aircraft was XW666.
The damage to the wing can be seen here, the tail broke off as the Pilot ditched the aircraft tail first, he then lowered the nose onto the water only after the tail had full absorbed the initial impact and bled off some speed, it had been seriously weakened by the fire trailing behind it ..
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/6025/ditchedr1.jpg
The skill the Pilot showed can be seen by the lack of damage the upper fuselage suffered from an impact with the sea at about 100-120 knots, the lower fuselage section containing the bomb bay has been torn off but the part that contained the crew is virtually intact ..
http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/4182/baenimrodraf.jpg
And the damage to the nose from headbutting the sea is obvious here ..
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/4882/xw66607072111recovery.jpg
Flt Lt Art Stacey was awarded the Air Force Cross for his skill that day in saving his crew, he was however "slabbed" (billed a case of beer) by the Nimrod Groundcrew who were unhappy at being denied their usual forage in the Galley for leftover rations when a Nimrod returns. The defence Art put up, that he had basically saved them the work of servicing it, as they would have to do on its return, was dismissed as circumstantial and the fine stood.
Forget the fakes.......check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtnL4KYVtDE
You want crosswind landings...
.....try this at Wick International:
737 on Final, into wind
http://i805.photobucket.com/albums/yy337/Phill_Rawlins/aeryplanes/IMG_9834.jpg
Turns to line up with runway
http://i805.photobucket.com/albums/yy337/Phill_Rawlins/aeryplanes/IMG_9836.jpg
OUCH!
http://i805.photobucket.com/albums/yy337/Phill_Rawlins/aeryplanes/IMG_9837.jpg
Bouncy bouncy
http://i805.photobucket.com/albums/yy337/Phill_Rawlins/aeryplanes/IMG_9839.jpg
If that clip is real, and I am not sure it is, they need to get that Pilot in the RAF, some Pilots there could do with some landing advice (the clip starts at ten seconds in).. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB5CXlEALJ0&feature=related
:eek: .. :roll:
Ahh.... it'll polish out :lol:
The Drunken Duck
19-Jun-10, 14:33
Great pictures there Phill .. doesn't a bounce that big count as TWO landings though ??
Sometimes Pilots just don't get the credit they deserve do they ?? ..
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/5963/cheekybackseater.jpg
:lol:
It's Thomas the Tank for me from now on after watching all that! :eek:
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