Jeep, Doing 80MPH, Drives Under Plane To Fix Landing Gear

AP ^ | 9/16/05

[Snardius]

It would have been easier in this...

[arasina]

"The Jeep Beneath My Wings", by The Gutsy Guys.

[Fiddlstix]

[Aeronaut]

[decimon]

Good for 250 miles without any major work.

If you fix landing gear on 707s.

[HairOfTheDog]

Heh.... I've seen a few of these rescues... People at their best, when it works!

[Eepsy]

Didn't I see this in an episode of Thunderbirds?

[BigTex5]

Do they consider the non-locking of the landing gear an incident?

[FireTrack]

Thanks for the ping Aeronaut! Looks like maybe a cutlass which is what I have...

[RetiredArmy]

Liberals minds at work.

[RetiredArmy]

I love my Wrangler. My wife loves her Grand Cherokee.

[agincourt1415]

Very interesting, Was it a Cessna 177?

[JimSEA]

While waiting for CSI on Spike TV a couple of days ago, I saw a video almost identical to this except the mechanic who grabbed the plane's wheel tried three times, finally having to use a sedan with a moon roof in order to get the correct speed (he had a driver as well, of course). It was on "Most Amazing Videos" or some such -- I don't exactly remember.

[RadioAstronomer]

172?

[Thud]

Don't try this at home.

Stupidity in flight is a death penalty offense.

Think of it as evolution in action.

[ElkGroveDan]

OK, now who of the guys on this board are not painfully envious of this stunt?

[agincourt1415]

Yeah, could have been a retractable 172, in fact from a distance thats what it looks like.

[narby]

The airport will now investigate to see if the impromptu in-flight inspection broke any major rules.

They do stuff like this at airshows. But they have "waivers" for specific stunts at airshows.

There is an FAR that basically makes it illegal to do anything dangerous, with no definition of what's dangerous.

I would have done this on either the Jeep end or Cessna end. But there is precedent to worry about such stunts. There was a Senator (I think it was Terazza Kerry's deceased hubby, Senator Heinz) that was killed when the plane he was in had a midair with a helicopter. They had the gear hang in the plane, and the helicopter flew up underneath to get a look, and apparently the downwash sucked them into each other.

Really stupid move.

[Chickensoup]

This is what I love about men: guts and ingenuity!

[U S Army EOD]

I have seen films of something like this twice, once about 1984 with landing gear problems. They actually put their hands on the gear. When it opened and locked, it almost knocked the guys out of the truck they were using.

The other, a C133 (big, big airplane) cutting a static line on a guy that was twisted in it. That took place at Fort Bragg I think in the early 60's.