Pretty neat landing to watch.
Neat. I remember seeing some old videos of B-52s about in the same shape, but they had one thing going for them - their landing gear was steerable.
I’m glad I wasn’t in it....
Gotta love those crabbing landings.
When I learned to fly I was taught two ways to land in a cross wing, the side slip and the crab method. The side slip method to me is so much better than the crab yet all of these airline jockeys always crab in. Anyone know why? With the side slip using cross controls, aileron and rudder, the fuselage and wings are lined up thruout the entire final approach the only thing out of whack is the nose wheel and on a tail dragger u don’t even have that problem. I don’t get it....
Bush landings. Personally I enjoy these videos for the scenery as much as anything.
Wow outstanding land!
The only question remains..,
Was he a pilot for the Air-Force, Navy or Marines?
When flying commercial you can usually tell if your pilot was in the Air Force, Navy or Marines by the way they land the airplane.
If it’s a long slow decent, put down nicely, then it’s a former Air Force pilot.
If it’s a long slow decent put down hard, then it’s a former Navy pilot.
If you are just cruising along, and all of sudden the pilot dives the plane practically over the airport, lands hard.... Then you can best believe it’s a former Marine Pilot.
Odd because O’Hare has runways aligned in many directions so that extreme crosswinds really shouldn’t be a problem. Very strong winds directly from the North or South being the only possible exception.
That flight probably had many potential ebola suspects, what with all the barfing and filled barfbags.
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Amazing. That pilot deserves all the kudos he can get.
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If the passengers were frightened at all, it would have been all over the news and the Internet.