Any Gulfstream 1 drivers out there?
I've heard it bandied about that you could supposedly cross any outer marker at 6000' above the airport elevation with a G1 and still land straight in. The technique was to get the aircraft in the landing configuration, cross the marker and stall it, and ride down to about five hundred feet AGL in the stalled condition. At 500' add power to break the stall and land normally. I never had the balls to do it except in the sim. Worked great. Musta been one helluva ride in the real thing.
The airport here used to have an NDB at 12.7 nm from the ILS runway threshold. You could cross that at 9000' at 290 KIAS with the G1 and make a beautiful approach without touching the power levers once, except on roundout, if the conditions were right. You'd set the power at 100 lb torque, cross the beacon at 290 clean and throw out the speed brakes. At 215 kt add takeoff flap, at 190 throw out the gear, 165 approach flap and finally full flap at 140. If you did everything right, the last 500' or so was at 120 and all you did was a nice normal landing. No bad for a nearly fifty year old airplane.