As a former AF pilot, this idea horrifies me. The last thing I want to do is engage nose-wheel steering immediately after touchdown.
Push button Airbus pilots- Good luck!
Thank you for your input. Perhaps that’s a deal killer.
I’m not convinced the curvature will require you to engage the nose-wheel immediately, but perhaps I’m not understanding your point clearly.
“As a former AF pilot, this idea horrifies me. The last thing I want to do is engage nose-wheel steering immediately after touchdown.”
Answers like yours are why pilots have to be certified in specific platforms before acting as PIC.
How about a loop-de-loop?
(I don’t even like landing on the old, boring straight ones)
“As a former AF pilot, this idea horrifies me. “
As a former passenger of an AF pilot, this idea horrified me too.
5.56mm
We can return to taildraggers, like the ME 262 prototypes. Oh, wait...
Former Air Force pilot and former Air Traffic Controller, this is a most horrible idea.
I can not conceive of any way to control the aircraft .
Amen, front strut will snap like a toothpick with the lateral forces. Not even taking into consideration digging the wingtip into the runway with the slightest alteration.