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Old 21st Nov 2018, 18:54
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ShyTorque

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It's an old enough mistake to make. An RAF student colleague of mine was criticised by his QFI after a dual training flight for applying the toe brakes during the takeoff roll (they were normally given a quick application to stop the wheels after lift off before they were retracted into their bays).

Shortly after the sortie debrief the line chief asked to speak to the instructor. The main undercarriage doors had an inch of metal missing off the lengths of the outer edges. The brakes possibly hadn't been applied after all, but the gear had been retracted too early and as the aircraft settled slightly, the doors had scraped the runway.

A similar thing happened to one of the Red Arrows pilots in the late 1980s - but he ended up riding on the belly tank as the rest of the formation took off around him. He decided to leave the aircraft.
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