717 certification stall test

[JeppUpdater]

I just...I dunno...Jesus Christ...



FWIW I've no idea the background on this video, but it is pure awesome. If you don't have respect for the guys who test the airlines we lazily fly day in, day out, you will after this.

 

[tlewis95]

My butthole just swallowed itself

 

[Avalon781ML]

That wasn't too bad... I expected much more rotation... an airplane is afterall just another airplane.

 

[scooter2525]

Here is the Airbus stall testing.

 

[Avalon781ML]

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Here is the Airbus stall testing.

Shouldn't it be a picture of Pepe Le Pew instead? I had no idea the Latin community had such an influence over the Airbus production line.

 

[Groundpounder]

While the recovery was successful, I'm not sure I would have done it the same way. I would have kept rolling until the wings were level, and then pulled.

 

[scooter2525]

Shouldn't it be a picture of Pepe Le Pew instead? I had no idea the Latin community had such an influence over the Airbus production line.

Probably. But I don't know his phrases as well.

 

[Cptnchia]

While the recovery was successful, I'm not sure I would have done it the same way. I would have kept rolling until the wings were level, and then pulled.

Looks like he was level when he pulled. At :37 he's wings level and starting to pitch up.

 

[Groundpounder]

Looks like he was level when he pulled. At :37 he's wings level and starting to pitch up.

Yeah, inverted, with the nose about 20* below the horizon. They pulled through 90* nose down. I would have kept rolling, that way you only have 20* or so till you're in a positive attitude. But, I am not a test pilot, and they lived to see another day, so I guess they didn't do the wrong thing.

 

[Cptnchia]

They'e putting the aircraft in a nose down, wings level position before the recovery. When he extends the speedbrake at :27 the aircraft starts rolling level and they follow along.

 

[Itchy]

I laughed at the right seaters hand during recovery. "Now remember, DON'T rip the wings off".

 

[Hacker15e]

For the folks who spazzed out in the thread talking about the Boeing test pilots doing 1G aileron rolls in the 7-series jets during the test programs.....

 

[FloridaLarry]

What's with the WWII pilot's hat with headphones over on the polo-shirted CA? Makes it look staged.

Sim? or will they go that far around?

 

[Murdoughnut]

I was waiting for him to scream "I see nothing but houses!!!!"

 

[fholbert]

What's with the WWII pilot's hat with headphones over on the polo-shirted CA? Makes it look staged.

Sim? or will they go that far around?

No it's real, I was on that flight. Back in 37B, they had just surved hot coffee.

 

[Hacker15e]

Sim? or will they go that far around?

The sun flare on the camera shooting the ADI shows that it is not a sim.

 

[jtrain609]

Yeah, inverted, with the nose about 20* below the horizon. They pulled through 90* nose down. I would have kept rolling, that way you only have 20* or so till you're in a positive attitude. But, I am not a test pilot, and they lived to see another day, so I guess they didn't do the wrong thing.

Look at the airspeed, I don't think there was enough energy to roll the wings level. Pretty sure the nose dropped straight down because the airplane stopped flying.

Also consider that he DC-9's ailerons are powered by tabs, and thus have to be flying to be effective eh.

 

[jwp_145]

I saw this a couple of months ago posted on VIMEO... definitely took it a little far! That was nearly dragchute time!!!

The background I read in the comments of the original video was that the uploader somehow knew someone who worked in flight test at McDD or Boeing. THey were doing the final stall certs on the ac.

 

[Boris Badenov]

Brian Williams? Is that you?

 

[Nick]

Do we have a consensus that the jumpseater gets up immediately following the recovery to head to the lav because he pooped his pants?