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Giant brass ones...
http://worldwarwings.com/landing-on-car ... -no-thanks
Wait, WHAT?As most pilots will tell you, any landing is simply a controlled crash.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that joke is exclusive to carrier landings.JustinR wrote:Wait, WHAT?As most pilots will tell you, any landing is simply a controlled crash.
That must be what I've been doing wrong all these years, flying it on to the runway. /sarc
What's the flare?JustinR wrote:Wait, WHAT?As most pilots will tell you, any landing is simply a controlled crash.
That must be what I've been doing wrong all these years, flying it on to the runway. /sarc
That thing you don't do when landing on a carrier.Greg wrote:What's the flare?JustinR wrote:Wait, WHAT?As most pilots will tell you, any landing is simply a controlled crash.
That must be what I've been doing wrong all these years, flying it on to the runway. /sarc
The pilot who did it was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Well earned.randy wrote:Given the low landing speed of the U-2 and the damn near vertical takeoff profile it can run once it's wings bite into the air, I'm actually more impressed with the big brass ones on the crews that did C-130 carrier landings and takeoffs
I wanna take off from a carrier someday before I dieJustinR wrote:That thing you don't do when landing on a carrier.Greg wrote:What's the flare?JustinR wrote: Wait, WHAT?
That must be what I've been doing wrong all these years, flying it on to the runway. /sarc
So you don't actually fly it onto the runway, you fly it pretty close to the runway then kind of convince the plane to *stop* flying, give up, and fall the rest of the way (a few feet) onto the runway.JustinR wrote:That thing you don't do when landing on a carrier.Greg wrote:What's the flare?JustinR wrote: Wait, WHAT?
That must be what I've been doing wrong all these years, flying it on to the runway. /sarc