I thought that looked like a Harrier?Originally Posted by sniper7
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I thought that looked like a Harrier?
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The KC-135 is actually French.
That was either a Mirage or a Tornado, both Euro designs...
That cross wind landing video was disappointing because most of them didn't even land. The video I saw years ago was for some Spanish flight school and it showed a bunch of 747's landing sideways.
Sniper, how/why do the planes manage to straighten out a few feet from the ground?
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My all time favorite flyover was when I was a cadet at the Air Force Academy back in the late 60's. We were in formation for lunch when there was a flyover by a flight of four F105s. The tail man got a little behind on the approach and was pushing the throttles a little too hard to catch up. He went supersonic right over us and knocked out all the South facing windows of Mitchell and Vandenburg Halls. Awesome damage.
After GW I, the opening of football season.. I was living on Grant st. Sitting there watching the pre game.. I heard a very loud noise,, Stepped out on the deck just in time to see a F117 fly over.. Close enough, if I had a rock,, I could have hit it..
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They use the rudder to straighten out at the last minute because it would probably blow the tires if they touched down in the crab. Actually there are two methods to do crosswind landings. The crab method is one and the other is called a slip. It really depends on the size (weight and momentum) of the airplane and the amount of crosswind as to which one the pilot will select. You can tell they're doing a slip by one wing being lower than the other and the touchdown being on one wheel first. In a crab, the airplane has to be slewed sideways to straighten out and that's very disconcerting to passengers if the crosswind is severe.
Unless it's a B-52, which has crosswind adjustable gear.
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Herding cats and favoring center
+1 I was thinking the same thing
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we fly it crabbed into the wind (nose points at an angle when compared to the runway), then when you are about to touch you slip it in (push in the rudder, bank the wings down into the wind) which will straighten the nose, usually land on the upwind side or simultaneously on both mains and then bring the nose down straight on the centerline.
some airplanes have castering main gear when the nose can remain pointed at an angle even into the touchdown, then kick rudder in to straighten out the nose
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