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http://blog.al.com/live/2012/0..._plane_lands_sa.html Auburn University BS '09, DVM '17 | ||
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What a neat story! Getting Bob Hoover on the radio to help out with an active gear problem in flight, that's the stuff of legends. REALLY cool! | |||
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very cool. that's great they were able to get in touch with Hoover who knows so much about the Mustang. Question for the pilots: in this case would you then retract the gear an belly land or do you try to go in on the one main gear? Seems like the P-51 would be an plane that would be tough to belly land vs. something like a P-47. Paul Smith SCI Life Member NRA Life Member DSC Member Life Member of the "I Can't Wait to Get Back to Africa" Club DRSS I had the privilege to fire E. Hemingway's WR .577NE, E. Keith's WR .470NE, & F. Jamieson's WJJ .500 Jeffery I strongly recommend avoidance of "The Zambezi Safari & Travel Co., Ltd." and "Pisces Sportfishing-Cabo San Lucas" "A failed policy of national defense is its own punishment" Otto von Bismarck | |||
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Think I would rather grind some of the belly off, than take a wing out. DRSS Beretta 45-70 belgian mag Tikka 512S 9.3 x 74R Baikal o/u 30-06 Looking for next one | |||
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No doubt that it is safer to belly land than take the risk of leaving one down and digging in a wing and cartwheeling. On a P-51 the radiator scoop will collapse on a belly landing making for a pretty smooth slide. Not to mention that repairing the belly skin is much cheaper than trying to repair/replace a bent wing which is guaranteed with one roller down and one up. Check it out her is some footage of a mustang making a belly landing. Not as dramatic as you'd think. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dJCxn7y3_c | |||
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Gonna bend the prop, either way.  Grizz Indeed, no human being has yet lived under conditions which, considering the prevailing climates of the past, can be regarded as normal. John E Pfeiffer, The Emergence of Man Those who can't skin, can hold a leg. Abraham Lincoln Only one war at a time. Abe Again. | |||
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That is one of them there givens. If the primary spark arresters won't come down and lock. A prop blade or two or three or four is gonna get bent.  | |||
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