RAAF F-111 Belly Landing
About five minutes into the 7 minute video of this F-111 doing a belly landing at RAAF Base Amberley you will see a view from a cockpit of an aircraft on short final of the landing runway. It is instructive to note the proliferation of rubber touch down marks starting at the piano keys and more or less averaging touch-downs at the runway 500 feet markers. At civil airports the rubber touchdown marks are usually to be found to average around 1500-2500 ft in from the landing end of the runway. Why the difference between military and civil operations?
Last edited by Centaurus; 22nd May 2014 at 13:12.