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A landing you can walk away from is a good landing!
Didn’t he take off with it? Where did it go?
When I was a lineboy back in the early 1960’s we used to see them land with various maladies.
I recall one such where the right landing gear of a single engine, high wing, fixed tricycle gear (memory fails me, but possibly a TriPacer) was hanging, and flapping about in the breeze. We watched it circle for quite awhile burning off fuel, and then he decided it was time.
He touched down on the left gear holding the nose up, and the right wing up until he couldn’t anymore due loss of momentum, and the plane just settled over on the right wing, and two guys walked away.
A very good landing.
Hanging out on the flightline at King Khalid Int Airport Jan 1991, and this Brit refueler comes in.
They couldn't retract the boom.
We couldn't have beer, but we broke out the popcorn (ok, MREs) to watch the landing.
Great spark show, and totally shredded that boom.
Ah, the good old days
I was standing by a tiny airstrip in the mountains of northern California chatting with a friend (his property abutted the airstrip), and we saw a small GA aircraft on approach with his right gear incompletely down and not locked.
The pilot was aware of it, he held that wingtip off of the runway until the last second and used the very last ounce of momentum to clear the runway. Nice landing.
Canopy pops open, and it’s my high school music teacher.
Take it on the chin! Owwie!
I LOVE how the SeeBS must explain to their “readers” that the “nose gear” is “the landing gear that is deployed from underneath the nose of the plane.”
BWA-HAHAHA!! SeeBS viewers in LA are what, 90+% Dhimmicrat?
So, there I was flying a C-210.
Annnnd, just after takeoff, just after pulling the gear retract knob, I had a total electrical malfunction.
The gear was frozen, half-way between extended and retracted.
Luckily, I had just bought a hand-held transceiver (a bit of a luxury back then) so I was able to communicate w the tower.
The emergency gear extension in a 210 is hydraulic, but actuating the handle takes some force.
I was able to extend the gear, but could not retract the gear doors thus I wasn't sure that the gear was locked.
The tower cleared me for any runway (and even roused some firetrucks, just in case.)
I only had takeoff flap (10 degrees) for landing, but I was able to "ease" it on the runway.
Suspense over, yes the gear was locked.
Don't you just love happy endings?
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Waiting for Brian Williams to show up and tell us how he did a dead stick wheels up landing on a dirt rode at night in a Lockheed Blackbird then fixed the engines with his pocket knife and flew it out.
I suspect Duke engines and props are a bit more than with a Baron, but this could be the perfect excuse for the turboprop upgrade!
Such a beautiful design, too, it's a shame it doesn't have a market any more.
Maybe Chinese investors or a Chinese entrepreneur will buy it eventually like what has happened with Mooney and the rest and recently with the Windecker Eagle.