Whoa!
Guts - Glory - RAM...
Scroll down a bit. Regular website with imbeded video and no junk pop ups. Easy link to watch the landing.
http://bgr.com/2017/10/07/crosswind-landing-video-omg/
Those turns are probably where the phrase "Kai Tak Heart Attack" came from.
And you're so low and close to apartment buildings you can actually see into apartments...I had a window seat during that first landing.
Boy, he made a mess of it!
His goal was to get the plane flying down the runway center-line, yawed at an angle to counter the crosswind, and straighten up just before touchdown. He didn’t do that too well, ended up sliding sideways and then made the biggest mistake: a gross over-correction.
Muslim pilot that got really lucky he didn’t wreck his landing gear dancing on the rudder pedals.
Clickbait ia what American Thinker is.
Go to YouTube. Two words: Kai-Tak.
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Nonetheless, the landing in the video would have scared me a lot more simply because of the size of the plane. I have an irrational unease about large aircraft.
Mr. niteowl77
Even so we have had some exciting times trying to get back on the ground on certain occasions. We have many friends who won't fly in here at all because of the occasional bumpiness and the tall Bonneville power lines on one end and the trees on the other.
On the opposite end of the spectrum from the airliner... we have several hang gliders and an ultralight airplane called a Skypup. The Skypup is extremely easy to fly and very well mannered as well, but it is a tail-dragger with no ailerons. The stall speed is only 25mph. This means that when you land in a crosswind you sometimes come in at what appears to be a ridiculous crab angle. In this situation you have do a “wheel landing” (as opposed to a 3 point) where the mains (the front two wheels) contact the ground first and then you make a quick correction. Most of the time you still end up doing a couple unintended S turns before you get things under control, but I have never actually ground looped the Skypup when landing.
My Skypup is a little nose heavy however and when trying to taxi to the end of the runway to take off in stronger winds a gust will sometimes cause it to weathervane. (Do a quick unintended 180 degree turn) I will then cut the engine and then walk it to the end of the runway like a wheel barrow holding it by the propeller and pushing down so that the tailwheel is off the ground. When I get to the end of the runway I give the rope starter a quick pull, hop in and take off.
In windy conditions like that the Skypup leaps into the air in less than 50 feet. And when you get it above the tree line the wind is often higher than its stall speed of 25 mph. So for the amusement of my friends I will sometimes fly up past the end of the runway crab across the crosswind portion of the landing pattern. Slow up and let the wind carry me backwards on downwind then crab across the base portion of the landing pattern and then descend vertically onto the numbers or wherever I want to come down.
Despite the dangerous sounding description... it is really not nearly as bad as it sounds. I came to it from a hang gliding background where we were always hoping for windy conditions in the mountains so that we could soar all day. Flying the Skypup is much more pedestrian than jumping off a cliff into gusty mountain air. My Skypup weighs only 230 pounds and was built from plans using a single cylinder 28HP Rotax 277 snowmobile engine. The airframe is made mostly out of Styrofoam insulation from Home Depot. There are no known fatalities in the design despite the plans being available since 1982. Wikipedia claims only 350 have been built but I believe that the number is larger.
The 380 is one UGLY airplane!
The 380 is one UGLY airplane!
The vertical tail rudder on that beast looks like something you’d see on a large sailing yacht.
