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Marine Lands Jet Vertically Without Nose Gear
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| 6/27/14
| Ralphie Aversa
Posted on 06/27/2014 12:12:23 PM PDT by Kartographer
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I wonder how long it took after landing for his buttocks to unclench the seat? ;-)
To: Kartographer
“It was then that Mahoney was informed of a stool built for this particular situation.”
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thinking to himself “Oh, sure...NOW you tell me...”
To: Kartographer
Sounds like the Navy knew it had a nose gear problem already, and prepared for the possibility.
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posted on
06/27/2014 12:16:02 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: Kartographer
To view the video (which, by the way, was broadcast in English) I was forced to endure a TIDE commercial in Spanish!
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posted on
06/27/2014 12:21:36 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: Kartographer
It’s a Harrier for goodness sake, built to take off and land like a helo. Still a good days work. Sand bags have been used for helicocpters like this before.
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posted on
06/27/2014 12:25:03 PM PDT
by
dblshot
(I am John Galt.)
To: Talisker
Harriers are known as “lawn darts”. Good thing it was just the nose gear. Good job by the pilot and crew to save it.
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posted on
06/27/2014 12:26:19 PM PDT
by
Rick66
To: Kartographer
When I first saw the headline, I thought, "Great. Another F-35b crap-up".
Then I saw the video and realized it was a Harrier.
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posted on
06/27/2014 12:28:06 PM PDT
by
Tonytitan
To: Kartographer
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posted on
06/27/2014 12:29:24 PM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: Kartographer
Marine Lands Jet Vertically Without Nose Gear!!!
Holy Crap! says I. I've got to see this. Oh. It's a Harrier they are designed to land vertically. I was expecting to see an F18 settling tail first into some contraption rigged to catch it. An aircraft designed to land vertically and doing so isn't really that stupendous of a feat.
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posted on
06/27/2014 12:29:38 PM PDT
by
762X51
To: Kartographer
To: Talisker
Everything isnt a conspiracy. The Harrier isn’t known for gear failures. More like the Navy knew that gear failures happen on -every- plane in the inventory, bar none. But that the Harrier is the only one you could possibly settle down into a cradle with little more expense than a sawhorse,,,,with no damage.
Good planning ahead USN/USMC.
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posted on
06/27/2014 12:32:05 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: Kartographer
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posted on
06/27/2014 12:32:25 PM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: All
I would think it would be a lot easier to get a large inflatable tube and lay it across the path of the jet so the pilot could see it and more easily judge the impact point (or yes, sandbags, foam, or whatever). Yes, the pilot did a good job with the stool, but why a stool that the pilot can’t see in the first place? Just saying.
To: Kartographer
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posted on
06/27/2014 12:35:29 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: 762X51
Easy to say when you aren’t in the pilot seat.
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posted on
06/27/2014 12:35:44 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: cynwoody; Chode; SgtBob; B4Ranch; nascarnation
All in a days work Ping!
Beats having a 105 round tossed into yer bedroom...
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posted on
06/27/2014 12:38:55 PM PDT
by
mabarker1
(Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!! Once again dingy hairball, STFU!!! You corrupt POS!!!)
To: ransomnote; Kartographer
It was then that Mahoney was informed of a stool built for this particular situation. Was it built in Blaine, Missouri?
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posted on
06/27/2014 12:39:32 PM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: 762X51
“and doing so isn’t really that stupendous of a feat.”
Sounds like you might not have been alone in that cockpit.
It already has a rep as one of the most difficult machines in our inventory to master. Coming in vertically on the gear has a small margin of error. But hitting the deck a couple of feet, one side or the other, probably won’t cause any issue.
But settling it down -precisely- into a cradle, without the shock absorbing landing gear, on the moving deck of a ship really was kinda a stupendous feat. Good flying Marine.
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posted on
06/27/2014 12:39:58 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: Kartographer
I’d have soiled my flightsuit for sure...but this came out much better than most “vertical landings” do.
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posted on
06/27/2014 12:42:11 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: Philsworld
A few feet away from the intakes, and a few more feet away from downward vectored exhausts. Why do you think they might not elect to use a big inflatable tube?
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posted on
06/27/2014 12:42:16 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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