Aviation Pictures Part Trois

[Bedwyr]

Carry on all.

[Luciora]

Regarding Rowan Atkinson and the BAE Comic Relief sketch, just casually lean over and stop it before it gets to that part.  It's at the end anyways.

[Weirdo]

Dang, I missed creating the new thread. I was gonna call it Aviation Pictures: The Three-Point Landing.

[Bedwyr]

Dang, I missed creating the new thread. I was gonna call it Aviation Pictures: The Three-Point Landing.

Kind of funny as it wasn't until my tailwheel checkout that I understood what a three-point landing actually was. I'd keep thinking about tricycle gear and wondering how you actually *do* that.

Bonus quiz question: I've done a one-point landing. How in the world did I do that?

[Weirdo]

Well if you don't count the wings or fuselage or cockpit as points...

[Bedwyr]

Well if you don't count the wings or fuselage or cockpit as points...

Well, no, I don't. But nope. Try again.

[Siden Pryde]

Bonus quiz question: I've done a one-point landing. How in the world did I do that?

Water landing in a flying boat?  The hull would kinda count as one "point" wouldn't it?  Whereas a pontoon type like a Beaver would be a two-point water landing?

[Bedwyr]

Water landing in a flying boat?  The hull would kinda count as one "point" wouldn't it?  Whereas a pontoon type like a Beaver would be a two-point water landing?

I should let it go since I just realized that I was contradicting myself.



Many gliders have only two wheels, the main gear and a single tailwheel. It's perfectly common to touch down on the main gear (akin to a wheel landing in a tailwheel plane but with one instead of two") and ride that wheel until the wings run out of lift... which happens at about a fast walking pace. However, it occured to me that I might be yanking your chains since you'd naturally be thinking of only aircraft construction instead of techniques too.

[Weirdo]

Dang. I was about to guess zeppelin landing hook.

[glitterboy2098]

interesting fact, bcause of the design of the U-2, it had to be landed like a glider, on a belly wheel then allowed to grind to a halt.

[Feenix74]

And playing with flares is even more fun if you do it with a friend:

https://youtu.be/LQkehCeBBOY

[Charlie 6]

Feenix74, I thought you won the last thread.  Well timed post in celebration of its end.

[vidar]

I was thinking of parasite fighters.

[Bedwyr]

Another glider image. The loverly Stemme S12



https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dqKzf0WZG_U

[Feenix74]

Gliding is a lot of fun (the view is spectacular and you can feel the serenity), although a glider with an engine is sort of cheating  >:D

[Feenix74]

When a daddy C-17 loves a mummy C-17, then a baby C-17 (aka KC-390) is born  ;)



Embraer's KC-390 tactical transport and air-to-air refueller that is currently undertaking flight testing with deliver the first production aircraft to the Brazilian air force next year.

[Sabelkatten]

Gliding is a lot of fun (the view is spectacular and you can feel the serenity), although a glider with an engine is sort of cheating  >:D

I've been up in a glider for a grand total of ~20 minutes ("Try flying" day at local airport). It was enough to make the instructor a bit irritated when he let me take the controls and I showed that I knew how to find and use a thermal - we weren't supposed to stay up longer! ;D

[I am Belch II]

Japan's C-2 looks just like a C-17 with just 2 engines. 2 767 sized engines vs 4 757 engines.

[Kidd]

MIG-35, a MIG-29 upgrade, because "-35" these days seems to be treated like some kind of branding mark of excellence it seems  ::)

[ANS Kamas P81]

And sadly but NOT tragically, a perfect one-point landing in a Supermarine Spitfire after a gear failure.

https://youtu.be/FbkFeaO-bDg

[Sharpnel]

As one point landings go, that one was just about perfect.

[Feenix74]

At least it was only a replica Spitfire.

Any landing that you walk away from is a good landing  O0

[Dave Talley]

As one point landings go, that one was just about perfect.

Yep
Walk away, fix it tomorrow, should be airworthy again soon

[Bedwyr]

Gliding is a lot of fun (the view is spectacular and you can feel the serenity), although a glider with an engine is sort of cheating  >:D

It is, but I can never get enough of the freaking prop spinning out of the freaking nosecone.


I've always been impressed with gliders, especially around wavecamps. I got my commercial license in Minden NV and was regaled with stories about pilots getting to 40,000 feet, traversing the entirety of the Sierra Nevadas and Baja in one flight.

[David CGB]

At least it was only a replica Spitfire.

Any landing that you walk away from is a good landing  O0

very much,,,,

[chanman]

Vintage Spanish Harrier

[Kidd]

Vintage Spanish Harrier

With such a small fleet, how many really are operational I wonder.

[Feenix74]

It is, but I can never get enough of the freaking prop spinning out of the freaking nosecone.


I've always been impressed with gliders, especially around wavecamps. I got my commercial license in Minden NV and was regaled with stories about pilots getting to 40,000 feet, traversing the entirety of the Sierra Nevadas and Baja in one flight.

It is very cool, but if you are going to cheat, then do it properly:



Desert Aerospace BonusJet, two-seater sailplane powered by a retractable PBS TJ-100 jet engine  O0

Edit - fixed grammar

[worktroll]

This is more fear-inducing proper cheating ...

[Feenix74]

I have always considered this to be a fear inducing glider



A General Aircraft Limited GAL. 49 Hamilcar aka Hamilcar Mark I. The Hamilcar was constructed primarily from wood, with fabric-covered plywood forming the skin, and high grade steel reinforcement beams in critical areas. The Hamilcar was designed to carry heavy cargo, such as the Tetrarch or M22 Locust light tanks.



I believe the aircrew who flew the Hamilcar to have balls, enormous depleted uranium ones.