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Boeing 777 & 747SP Landing In Severe Crosswind
AirTalk.org ^ | June 14, 2006

Posted on 06/13/2006 11:42:07 PM PDT by Eagle9

The engineers design the landing gear system, goes up for a design review, gets manufactured, the maintenance people install it, ops check it, then jack and retract the system; but then Boeing test crews have to actually prove the design. Before the landing gear sideload limits gets etched in stone in the -1 flight manual.

So they sneak off to Brazil to do these tests at a certain remote BAF base famous for its continual atrocious crosswinds...

This is some good piloting by the test pilots in getting these planes down. For some people it looks totally unnatural for an aircraft that size doing that, and for others it’s a thing of beauty.

If you haven't seen these it's pretty cool to watch planes of this size crabbing in on a landing.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2581413167561676027&q=crosswind


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KEYWORDS: boeing; crosswind
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The same video and other crosswind landings can be seen at the following link.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=crosswind

If you happen to view the version with Portuguese titles before each landing, go to the following link for a translation.

http://www.xplanefreeware.net/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t1201.html

1 posted on 06/13/2006 11:42:09 PM PDT by Eagle9
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To: Eagle9

That is cool.


2 posted on 06/13/2006 11:52:09 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: saganite; COEXERJ145; Zuben Elgenubi; Paleo Conservative; CWOJackson; GWB00; patton; ...

Ping


3 posted on 06/14/2006 12:01:29 AM PDT by Eagle9
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To: Eagle9

This is the description of the video given by the person who uploaded it to Google video.

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This shows the Boeing factory test pilots determining the demonstrated crosswind landing limits on the 777 and the 747SP. The engineers ... all » make educated guesses, but then the test crews have to go actually prove the numbers.

They sneak off to Brazil to do these tests at a certain remote BAF airbase famous for its continual atrocious crosswinds. Should the gear sideloads be excessive and fold one up, there is nobody there to take nasty pix for the Airbus guys to wave around in the press.

You think they might need a tire change after one of these landings? (And maybe a seat cushion change too!)


4 posted on 06/14/2006 12:10:30 AM PDT by Eagle9
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To: Eagle9

Cool! Thanks.


5 posted on 06/14/2006 12:24:57 AM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: Eagle9

I remember learning to fly gliders when I was a teenager and doing "slipping" in to quickly drop altitude, but doing it in a 747,...priceless! Amazing. Who are the pilots? Give em a hand.


6 posted on 06/14/2006 12:44:02 AM PDT by garyhope
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To: Eagle9

Wild - the last one looks like he is doing a VTOL.


7 posted on 06/14/2006 5:16:55 AM PDT by patton (What the heck just happened, here?)
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To: Aeronaut; Eagle9
Aviation list crossed-controls ping ....

~GCR~

8 posted on 06/14/2006 8:29:54 AM PDT by GoldCountryRedneck
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9 posted on 06/14/2006 5:03:52 PM PDT by Aeronaut ("Endless repetition is not a coherent argument." —Thomas Sowell)
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To: Eagle9

What a bunch of good pilots, I would be willing to fly anywhere with them.


10 posted on 06/14/2006 5:09:58 PM PDT by U S Army EOD
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To: Paleo Conservative

ping for aeronautic geeks


11 posted on 06/14/2006 5:21:26 PM PDT by raygun
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To: Aeronaut

Unbelievable. The pilots handle those heavies like they're helicopters.


12 posted on 06/14/2006 5:21:46 PM PDT by The Westerner
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To: Aeronaut

Graceful Birds!


13 posted on 06/14/2006 5:22:35 PM PDT by phantomworker ("I wouldn't hurt you for the world, but you are standing where I am about to shoot..."--Quaker quote)
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To: Eagle9

My CFI showed me this just after I got my private certificate. I'm pretty good at crosswind landings now (In a cessna 172 or 206) but these guys doing etreme X-wind landings in those big jets are amazing.


14 posted on 06/14/2006 5:24:11 PM PDT by Chuckster (Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoset)
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To: Eagle9

Those pilots have some cajones.


15 posted on 06/14/2006 5:30:01 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Aeronaut

Thanks Buddy


16 posted on 06/14/2006 5:45:23 PM PDT by cmsgop ( DO NOT VOTE FOR PEDRO !!! He's a DEMOCRAT......)
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To: Eagle9

SP is one of my favorite planes.

I drastically altered a vacation so I could fly on one. Did Capetown to Jo'burg to Frankfurt.

Bitchin plane.


17 posted on 06/14/2006 6:08:09 PM PDT by Central Scrutiniser ("You can't really dust for vomit.")
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To: Eagle9
"You think they might need a tire change after one of these landings? (And maybe a seat cushion change too!)"

380 has lunched wheels and tires just trying to turn off the runway...
I don't have any info on seat cushions.

18 posted on 06/14/2006 6:59:07 PM PDT by norton
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To: U S Army EOD

I'll pass on the TAP 321 driver. Check that one out.


19 posted on 06/14/2006 8:34:10 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry....)
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To: MindBender26

I didn't see that one before I posted. That was a close one.


20 posted on 06/14/2006 10:35:01 PM PDT by U S Army EOD
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