VIDEO: AV-8B No Nosewheel VL BATAAN
Do a Hover - it avoids G
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You were obviously living right!
The Harrier has been in service around the world for 45 years so not surprisingly there have been many u/c incidents and also a few where people did VLs having forgotten to lower the wheels. None produced the sort of damage that stopped the thing flying the next day. Probably just the same in the chopper world.
You were obviously living right!
The Harrier has been in service around the world for 45 years so not surprisingly there have been many u/c incidents and also a few where people did VLs having forgotten to lower the wheels. None produced the sort of damage that stopped the thing flying the next day. Probably just the same in the chopper world.
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Marine pilot uses stool to land safely after malfunction
June 28, 2014 By Kate Wiltrout The Virginian-Pilot © June 28, 2014
Marine pilot uses stool to land safely after malfunction - Association of Naval Aviation in Virginia Beach, Virginia - Hampton Roads Squadron
June 28, 2014 By Kate Wiltrout The Virginian-Pilot © June 28, 2014
"...The landing signal officer talked him in, making sure the Harrier was properly aligned before clearing him to land.
He idled the engine. The working landing gear hit the deck. He felt the nose drop.
“It dropped more than I expected,” he said. “But at that point, I was along for the ride.”
Mahoney had landed squarely on the middle of the stool. The nose bounced once and came to rest.
Adrenaline rushing, hands quivering, it took him a moment to remember how to shut off the jet.
“It was a pretty big relief,” he said in the video. “I didn’t realize how much I was shaking until I got out of the aircraft.”
He idled the engine. The working landing gear hit the deck. He felt the nose drop.
“It dropped more than I expected,” he said. “But at that point, I was along for the ride.”
Mahoney had landed squarely on the middle of the stool. The nose bounced once and came to rest.
Adrenaline rushing, hands quivering, it took him a moment to remember how to shut off the jet.
“It was a pretty big relief,” he said in the video. “I didn’t realize how much I was shaking until I got out of the aircraft.”
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Do the Americans have a suitable decoration for such examples of 'devotion to duty whilst flying'?
It is a really huge gaudy thing as typical of them.
