He's too close for Missiles Goose, switching to guns

[knot4u]

on the Hog, no pressure applied to the mains for braking and they don’t sit against anything in the wells. You can feel them spin down some on initial liftoff and climb

Were they balanced after tire replacement or overhaul? I don't recall ever balancing a main wheel assembly on a jet in the rare instances I've been forced to do it, just line up the dot on the tire either with or opposite of the valve stem, whatever the CMM called out. Nose wheels were balanced for obvious reasons, they are (hopefully) still spinning when the gear retracts and an out of balance nose wheel assembly in close proximity to the cockpit might cause a pilot a bit of consternation.

 

[MikeD]

Were they balanced after tire replacement or overhaul? I don't recall ever balancing a main wheel assembly on a jet in the rare instances I've been forced to do it, just line up the dot on the tire either with or opposite of the valve stem, whatever the CMM called out. Nose wheels were balanced for obvious reasons, they are (hopefully) still spinning when the gear retracts and an out of balance nose wheel assembly in close proximity to the cockpit might cause a pilot a bit of consternation.

This was back in 1988, when 79-0201 from the 75th Tac Fighter Squadron made a belly landing at England AFB after a 30mm shell exploded in the gun drive and damaged the nose landing gear. Has happened a good number of times.

When he lands and passes the camera, you can see the main tire wheels rolling, which is part of why he’s not slowing down. The pilot used braking to turn right and exit the runway into the grass, where you can see the wheel marks from the main wheels rolling.

In the maintenance hangar, you can see the damaged areas, with no damage to the main landing gear pod bottoms except for the left one where he hit a runway light when exiting into the grass, and bounced that side into the grass. But otherwise the pods weren’t touching ground, it waa rolling on its main wheels and the vertical stab undersides and tail tip.