Originally Posted by
pma 32dd
Maybe the lights were deliberately put off centre to help co-pilots landings......and the concrete is deliberately soft for the tristar impacts....sorry soft touchdowns
Trust me it is stronger than a Tristar............ I was there and witnessed the infamous suposed Autoland when the system was not I believe functioning, what ever happened, the Tristars 80ft bounce and the subsequent short flight followed by the fuel stream pouring out of the ruptured wings as he flew it around circuit to put it down again.
We stood in Base Hangar in awe as you could see the sheared spars, spread main gear, distorted upper skins where the gear had tried to come through the top of the wing, the Lockheed Engineers sent over could not believe it either as the wing was more or less held together by the skins alone on its last circuit.
Needles to say it was judged to be a writeoff, so the MOD rebuilt it.