Originally Posted by BOAC
whether inertia would have been sufficient to force it through the distorted doors and the uplocks is for physicists/engineers to say.
That it would do that is not in dispute,
nor that the extended gear would separate at high enough forward speed.
(Some "deep stall" or "flat spin" adepts postulate near-zero forward speed). What I find difficult to believe is that, if the gear was separated from the wing in more or less retracted position, taking large parts of its support structure with it, that it would end up in fully extended position relative to its support structure. Wouldn't the longitudinal 9g forces referred to by CliveL hinder its 'gravity extension'?
Regards,
HN39