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Amazing Plane Landing

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Created by Smithy > 9 months ago, 2 Dec 2014
Smithy
VIC, 858 posts
2 Dec 2014 11:34PM
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Not sure if this is a setup stunt by the pilot, if not pretty amazing save....

Rex
WA, 949 posts
2 Dec 2014 9:31PM
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Smithy said..
Not sure if this is a setup stunt by the pilot, if not pretty amazing save....



A big lol, so fake its ridiculous

Chook2
WA, 1244 posts
2 Dec 2014 10:50PM
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It was from an American advert. A radio controlled plane.

DavidJohn
VIC, 17438 posts
3 Dec 2014 2:26AM
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Rex said..

Smithy said..
Not sure if this is a setup stunt by the pilot, if not pretty amazing save....




A big lol, so fake its ridiculous


Agree.. It's sooooo fake..

cisco
QLD, 12323 posts
3 Dec 2014 2:10AM
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Not fake at all.

I was the one flying it and landing it.

If you don't believe me, check out some of my other flying feats.





This is when I was at flying school in Toowoomba.

Chook2
WA, 1244 posts
3 Dec 2014 7:55AM
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That spitfire...............just listen and love.

Ian K
WA, 4048 posts
3 Dec 2014 8:44AM
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Not completely implausible, stunt aircraft can have a thrust to weight ratio close to one, even better without one wing, so they can hover or fall to earth slowly. The absence of the helicopter's tail rotor might be an issue.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Handley

In 1998, with sponsorship by Oracle, and seeking an even more impressive airshow aircraft, Wayne set out to create the exceptional Oracle Turbo Raven which was the world’s only aerobatic aircraft with a thrust to weight ratio higher than one (more thrust than weight). Teaming up with Richard Giles of Akrotech, and AgAir Systems, the Oracle Turbo Raven came to life. The composite airframe based on the G-202 design had an empty weight of only 1,600 pounds (725 kg) and was fitted with a 750 horsepower (560 kW) Pratt & Whitney PT6A-25C turboprop that generated 2,800 pounds (12,500 N) of thrust which gave the aircraft a power loading of less than 2.7 lb/hp at ready to fly weights. With this unheard of power loading the Oracle Turbo Raven could fly straight up, hover in mid-air, back up, stop, and then accelerate straight up out of the hover. The aircraft also had enough power that it could recover from flat spins simply by flying out of them with the nose still on the horizon.

Harrow
NSW, 4521 posts
3 Dec 2014 9:33PM
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You want to see real STOL? Look at this....who needs a helicopter!



or else, try a Bush class Cub.

Dawn Patrol
WA, 1991 posts
3 Dec 2014 6:53PM
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An F15 has landed missing a wing after a mid air collicollision before!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Negev_mid-air_collision

Toph
WA, 1820 posts
3 Dec 2014 7:10PM
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Dawn Patrol said..
An F15 has landed missing a wing after a mid air collicollision before!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Negev_mid-air_collision



With the help of an on-board computer working overtime making 140 adjustments per second on the autopilot. But yes, approach with low speeds would require some skill and ALOT of luck..


Chook2
WA, 1244 posts
3 Dec 2014 7:28PM
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Yeh love them Harrow!!

They have sacrificial bolts in the tail wheel assembly so as not to hurt the airframe when they rip off the tail wheel on a boulder.

I've flown a Skyfox and they are a hoot.

sn
WA, 2775 posts
3 Dec 2014 8:22PM
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Here you go Chook!




This 3 1/2 minute vid. has probably racked up overtime on my P.C's over the last few years.......

When I lived in Bindoon, we often copped the RAAF newbies messing about having fun training in their PC9's over and around the district.

My productivity was known to be pretty low during these times for some reason!

Later, one of my girlfriends moved to Bullsbrook - opposite the runway.

Low flying aircraft doing touch - n - goes used to make the washing stink of avtur, so we would send the kids outside with kites.
One time I called up the control tower and asked them to fly a bit higher as the girlfriends knickers were starting to smell of kero fumes.

Heard the tower crew cracking up laughing and calling up the flyboys - from then on they were all trying to outperform each other as they flew overhead.

Even got a free airshow for the kids birthday party in the paddock next door - with the RAAF firies arriving to treat the kids with a heap of foam to mess about in.

stephen

Chook2
WA, 1244 posts
3 Dec 2014 8:47PM
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I'm in LOVE!!!

Went to the Farnborough Airshow in England and it rained the whole time. Never saw a spitfire, hurricane or a Lancaster.
They were weathered in at their home airfields. Even the red arrows were grounded in 2012.

They flew the Vulcan like they stole it and that made my day.

My brother has a property right on the end of the strip at Bullsbrook. He loves it.

52 squadron comes to Esperance and trains every now and then so we get the odd PC9 display.

Dawn Patrol
WA, 1991 posts
3 Dec 2014 8:52PM
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Toph said...
Dawn Patrol said..
An F15 has landed missing a wing after a mid air collicollision before!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Negev_mid-air_collision



With the help of an on-board computer working overtime making 140 adjustments per second on the autopilot. But yes, approach with low speeds would require some skill and ALOT of luck..




Those planes do only fly due to their computers (in fact even with both wings they can't fly without the computers), so he would have had some help, but there is no way that plane would have landed if left up to autopilot...and the approach wasn't low speed, he landed at approx twice the usual landing speed.
A huge whack of luck and a decent pilot is what got that down.

(To be honest a part of me is sceptical of the whole story, but it seems well documented and photographed before the Photoshop era)



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