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Old 28th Mar 2009, 00:14
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Thanks for those vids deSitter, v.interesting

The 380 and 747 both do a pretty noticeable left re-align immediately after touchdown

Methinking a combination of a very heavy wind gradient (OK, you all call it shear, but gradient in the last 30 metres is what I always called it),
+ characteristics of MD very different to the 3 nicely controllable examples shown above.

The MD series won't I expect be grounded, but pretty sure they'll have some much more stringent cross-wind limitations applied (after-all, there are cross-winds and there are cross-winds, eh ?)
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