Dramatic landing at Stanstead [apparently]
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Catch up, this was ages ago, the video was posted to YouTube on the 26th February 2017.
If you visit YouTube you will find the comments of 830 armchair experts who are only to happy to give their updates and opinions. Enjoy!
If you visit YouTube you will find the comments of 830 armchair experts who are only to happy to give their updates and opinions. Enjoy!
As to the videotape WTF!?
A DC8 could deploy it's inner reversers as speed brakes but I have, unfortunately, never flown a DC8
A DC8 could deploy it's inner reversers as speed brakes but I have, unfortunately, never flown a DC8
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Years ago I was riding on a USAir jumpseat. The CLT crew told me of an unapproved Piedmont short field landing 'technique' in the 737-200 where you would pull the throttles to idle in the flare and pull up and back on the reverser levers. As soon as you had weight on the wheels the reversers would unlock and spool up without delay to slow you down in a hurry. Those new-fangled -300's arrived and the crews were given differences training. Yep, they tried the short field landing technique on the new plane and the reversers popped at 10 feet RA and put wrinkles in the fuselage.
I'm thinking I've seen some similar homemade technique with the speedbrake where you pull the lever before touchdown and let the squat switch deploy the ground spoilers on old planes without autospoilers.
I'm thinking I've seen some similar homemade technique with the speedbrake where you pull the lever before touchdown and let the squat switch deploy the ground spoilers on old planes without autospoilers.
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Pardon my ignorance (never flew the '37), but isn't groundshift or wheelspin required activation? I can see some Swiss cheese holes lining up here.
This video kindles a memory of the 42 souls who perished when a 737 go-around took place with activated reverse that did not stow:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifi...nes_Flight_314
This video kindles a memory of the 42 souls who perished when a 737 go-around took place with activated reverse that did not stow:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifi...nes_Flight_314
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And I do remember using max continuous reverse on numbers 2 and 3 airborne on the DC8 to get down fast. Drop the gear and you could put the outboards in reverse too....boy, did that plane shake and rattle and when you did that...kind of scary to think about it now!
Shows you how old I am.
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And it seems like with the gear down you could only do idle reverse on the outboards, at least with the CFM's. And yes, it was scary.