Airplane porn
- Thread starter WacoFan
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Well, with a little help on systems anyway
Well yes, of course.
Not to detract from the two Nav-rated guys in their cockpits at all. Was just referring to the one guy at the controls. 
HELICOPTERS ARE NOT AIRPLANES!
I still am laughing at this post. Very well done!
Minuteman
I HAVE STRONG OPINIONS ABOUT AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING!
What? It's not like they're going to need that thing anymore.
Here's 'Landseaire', a flying yacht (PBY).
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Adler
Guest
What? It's not like they're going to need that thing anymore.
Here's 'Landseaire', a flying yacht (PBY).
Here's me, too bad there were no babes like the PBY pictures...
CFI A&P
Exploring the world one toilet at a time.
For singles not on floats the AT802 is friggin' mean looking!
http://dms.ntsb.gov/aviation/AccidentReports/25fytkjeqcxcrn453qzqmjva1/C01092012120000.pdf
Badass platform, but whoops:
http://dms.ntsb.gov/aviation/AccidentReports/25fytkjeqcxcrn453qzqmjva1/C01092012120000.pdf
Documentary on the last flight of the last US Army unit that flew the CH-54 Skycrane; the Nevada NG at Reno. I still remember one of these birds coming through KPRC on a stopover on it's way to the boneyard in Tucson back in 1990. Today, the A & B model crane's are used by a few different companies for heavylift and firefighting duties.
cmill
Cold Ass Honky
We dont do a whole lot of beaching around here, except for fishing trips, which that would come in handy. I'd have to know what your definition of rough water is though. I've personally done 2ft in straight floats, and have known guys that have done 4-5, the plane didnt exactly come back un-damaged though.
BeRich
Very Special Agent
Mike, is there a reason the gear doesn't fully retract? It seems like leaving the exposed tires would be pretty vulnerable, even to small arms (if they could even hit it?). Obviously a bullet in the tire is a lot better than losing a wing, so was it a design choice between the exposed gear and somehow weakening the rest of the plane?
/curious bystander
/curious bystander
Gear doors are unnecessary weight and an obstruction to lowering the gear in an emergency if there's damage to that part of the aircraft. Funny thing is, that when the gear is retracted, the brakes still work and the wheels roll. That was found out when a gear-up landing had to be made in the 1980s, and the pilot was able to keep the jet straight on the runway via the brakes. And because of the design and CG in that configuration, the jet will roll on the wheels and drag the bottom of the vertical stabs. Apart from that and some sheared off antennas and fuel drain tube, there's no other damage pending the pilot jettisons his stores to a clean configuration like in the pic. Ever since, with any gear emergency in the Hog, even though the checklist talks about landing with different gear configurations, the recommended if a landing can't be made with all three down, is to land all three up. The worst is landing with no nose-gear extended. If all gear can't be retracted and especially its a nose gear failing to extend, then the recommended thing to do is to consider bailing out of the plane in a controlled bailout area, rather than risk landing in this way. A mainmount that won't extend is bad, but not as much.
Here's a pic of how it sits on the runway with gear up. On the mains and dragging the tail.
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Minuteman
I HAVE STRONG OPINIONS ABOUT AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING!
Neat! Did the cannon not like the sudden deceleration?
No, the cannon was the reason for the gear up landing. The attitude you see the jet in, is the attitude it lands in.
We'd had ammo problems with the gun for a couple of years, where there were a few incidents of a 30mm round detonating inside the gun before being fully loaded/seated or slow burning. This resulted in the gun barrels, feed mechanism, and gun drive getting destroyed, as well as damaging the airframe next to the gun and sending debris to the stowed nose landing gear thats right next to the gun. This ended up jamming the nose gear in the up position and necessitating the all gear up landing, even though the main landing gear came down fine. Never want to do a nose-gear up landing. The damage to the gun was pre-landing.
WacoFan
Bigly
What is so bad about a nose-gear up landing in the A-10. We've all seen "normal" airplanes do that just great - what is it about the A-10 that makes bailing out preferable?
30mm gun sticking out up front. Because of the severe nose-down angle the jet has with it's mains-only down, it will dig into the asphalt or concrete seams on the runway upon nose touchdown and likely flip the jet nose-over onto it's back, thus trapping the pilot in the cockpit. That's bad enough for egress and even moreso for injury should the front windscreen and forward canopy bow collapse, but if there's a resulting fire of any sort, you're trapped in it without any chance of quick rescue. It was in our checklist for performing one, but only recommended if for some reason the mains were stuck down and bailout wasn't an option.