C-17 short field landing

beefy botham · 21st Jul 2012, 06:03

At Peter O. Knight, Tampa, a 3,500' runway.

C-17 Lands at Peter O Knight - YouTube

Hotel Tango · 21st Jul 2012, 09:36

But what was it all about? Taxying must have been fun too.

DaveReidUK · 21st Jul 2012, 09:42

Some interesting data on C-17 takeoff and landing distances here:

http://gao.justia.com/department-of-...ull-report.pdf

Clearly the commentator on the video hasn't read it.

Big Eric · 21st Jul 2012, 11:53

There's more info here :- C17 Lands at wrong (3600 foot!) runway

Noah Zark. · 21st Jul 2012, 17:48

It must have been a heavy landing judging by the way the ground was bouncing the cameraman about!

zondaracer · 23rd Jul 2012, 05:50

C17 Lands at wrong (3600 foot!) runway

Hotel Tango · 23rd Jul 2012, 08:33

It does seem quite amazing that they should mistake such an obviously narrow and short runway for a long and wide one. However, in their defence, I don´t believe that the a/c was based there (it´s more of an C-135/KC-135 base) and at the time of day they made the approach they would have had the Sun in their eyes. Lucky there wasn´t any light a/c on or near the runway.

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