Don't
To the younger aviators out there, those new to the fold: do everything you can to avoid becoming a test pilot.
A landing without the nose gear down and locked is a big deal, emotionally, but not mechanically.
Yet it is certainly not as big a deal as doing 'how many?' touch and go's to free the nose gear.
How do I know this?
Look at the damage done to the main gear.
Would you want to have been responsible for that?
There are videos everywhere of aircraft performing wheels-up and partial wheels-up landings.
And on those videos we see lots of sparks as the plane makes its way straight down the runway; no sliding about, no fish-tailing from side to side.
Yes there's damage.
Paint scraped off the undersides is definitely damage; and there's the hull's integrity to consider.
But that's for the engineers, later, and the paint shop.
Other than that, nothing serious, not even to the low slung engines.
Shocking, but true.
Hard to believe, undoubtedly.
But the evidence is in.
Unquestionably, the pilots of the Kuwait Airways A320 did what they thought best.
They tried to resolve the problem.
And maybe it might have worked, given a different set of circumstances.
On this day, it didn't.
Lessons learned?
Don't be a test pilot.