Neptune gear up landing in stiff crosswind.

[AdamFrisch]

And also the "wrong" side gear for the crosswind at hand. Pilot did great job.

Minden emergency landing.MTS - YouTube

[mad_jock]

Thanks for posting that Adam.

Top skills by the pilots (is it single crew that thing?)

[Say Cheese]

Impressive landing

[welkyboy]

Crosswind is on the correct side in this config. The pilot needs to keep the starboard wing down and when the port wing eventually drops the resultant swing is reduced due to the wind trying to weathercock the aircraft to starboard, a very good job by all

[India Four Two]

Very impressive. I presume the Skycrane was preparing to drop retardant if necessary.

[AdamFrisch]

Yes, the crosswind is on the right side for weathercocking purposes, but on the wrong side for keeping the wing off the ground. It's six of one, or half dozen of another, I suppose. A left crosswind would probably have made keeping that wing up longer possible - and to a lower speed, but it might have veered off earlier. It's all academic anyway.

[PompeyPaul]

Seeing how smoothly he landed I wondered if it would have been worth driving a car down to have the wing land on? It'd probably have saved mega bucks in repairs.

[stickandrudderman]

Someone's been watching too much Thunderbirds!

[Pilot DAR]

It's not possible to watch too much Thunderbirds!

Signed: Joe 90

And, excellent job of the landing!