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The Cool Video Thread
SpazSinbad:
BZ to pilot/LSO and the chaps who thunk up the stool. Think how much easier a no nosewheel landing will be in an F-35B with the pilot able to see through the floor via HMDS?
Victory103:
Is there a story attached? In the helo world we have a plan that has been used to recover a stuck sonar dome with mattresses. Almost used the idea again when we popped a main mount tire doing 1 wheel landings on a destroyed tank on the range (CO was on the controls), concern was on shutdown how low our blades would go as we listed to one side, no issues in the end.
SpazSinbad:
'Goonie' the original video has been removed - meanwhile here it is again...
AV-8B no gear landing on USS Bataan
SpazSinbad:
'Victory103' the USMC are notorious for some years ago (ordered by a Col.) for making a Trainer AV-8B land on a pile of mattresses which it had no wheels. The results were not good. Years before the RN FAA had landed a SHAR onboard in some kind of wheel less condition without troubles (variable) whilst an unintentional wheelsup SHAR landing was done at an air display years ago - I believe the aircraft was fixed - it suffered minimal damage as I recall.
SpazSinbad:
Here is the USMC MATTRESS incident. I guess this is the reason for the STOOL invention.
From an e-mail:
--- Quote ---"Ya just gotta weep: This is what happens when your superiors don't understand the rules. What to do when your landing gear won't come down explanation below. To quote the guy who showed the pics:
"Basically, the nose gear wouldn't come done. The Harrier has a backup system with a nitrogen bottle to blow the gear down in this event. Well, someone significantly outranking the pilot ordered him not to blow the gear down (which is the specified emergency procedure) because by his 'superior' reasoning, if the nose gear didn't come down, he was afraid the jet would break its back by having all that weight on the long nose of the T-bird. With that, he elected to gather mattresses and strap them down to support the extended nose, and you have the obvious result.
'Normally' a Harrier that can't get it's gear to come down will suck up the gear and do a vertical landing on the strakes/gun pack, they'll jack the bird up, fix the gear, and it's back to flying rather quickly. In this case, the motor was hilariously trashed with mattress springs protruding out and everything. This has since become a legendary event in the Harrier community (rather small community) and is laughed about often. The best part was, when they jacked the plane up in the hangar and pulled the gear handle to blow them down, all 4 came down and locked in place."
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