Big Up to a C185 pilot!
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Big Up to a C185 pilot!
Talk about 2 wheels on my (Sky)wagon!
OK the a/c is not as Mr Cessna built it ,but you're OK and cleverley she's at the maintenance base.
Now all you've got to do is find the missing bit of rubber.
If you were in the RAF I'd recommend you for a commendation.
Sir George Cayley
OK the a/c is not as Mr Cessna built it ,but you're OK and cleverley she's at the maintenance base.
Now all you've got to do is find the missing bit of rubber.
If you were in the RAF I'd recommend you for a commendation.
Sir George Cayley
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He's Refering to the C185 that landed at Barton with a very importantant part missing, the right mainwheel ! As and eye witness the event I'd say very well done that man !
And if your reading this you got a very loud round of applause once you had stopped from those on the tower. You have my vote for Pilot of the year.
Very well done
SP
And if your reading this you got a very loud round of applause once you had stopped from those on the tower. You have my vote for Pilot of the year.
Very well done
SP
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Nice bit of flying 
But aren't you supposed to check for the correct number of wheels on the pre departure walk around ?
(Tongue in cheek before the Mr Angry's of Purley reach for their keyboards !!)
But aren't you supposed to check for the correct number of wheels on the pre departure walk around ?
(Tongue in cheek before the Mr Angry's of Purley reach for their keyboards !!)
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From: Too close to Croydon for comfort
I'm not in the slightest bit angry...
Good landing, but with a name like Gordon Cooper, wouldn't he be more used to splashing down?
Good landing, but with a name like Gordon Cooper, wouldn't he be more used to splashing down?
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Clearly a very cool customer and a great bit of flying....but why do the press always insist on using the word "Terror" in any report of an aircraft incident 
I hope I never have the opportunity to try a landing like that
Aiglon
I hope I never have the opportunity to try a landing like that
Aiglon
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As seen on Granada News just now - Nice landing sir! Considering the circumstances, you were not much less elegant than my usual arrival with three serviceable wheels on the Cherokee. Did the tower ask you to report final for 27L AND 27R? hehehe.
Someone on ManchesterOnline made the valid point that "at least Barton is still there for people in emergencies to land at". Which made me wonder about the disruption and over-exaggerated reporting which we might have seen had this been forced to go into Manchester...
Well done!
vigs
Someone on ManchesterOnline made the valid point that "at least Barton is still there for people in emergencies to land at". Which made me wonder about the disruption and over-exaggerated reporting which we might have seen had this been forced to go into Manchester...
Well done!
vigs
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Well done, another well trained pilot taking an incident in his stride.
I'm curious where the 'Circling to burn fuel to reduce the chance of the aircraft bursting into flames' comment came from.
I guess if it was me I'd be circling to ensure the fire truck, ambulance and any one else was ready for me. Or as one Canberra pilot with an inevitable problem put it , 'Waiting for the courts martial to be formed to tell him what he should have done so he could do it'
I'm curious where the 'Circling to burn fuel to reduce the chance of the aircraft bursting into flames' comment came from.
I guess if it was me I'd be circling to ensure the fire truck, ambulance and any one else was ready for me. Or as one Canberra pilot with an inevitable problem put it , 'Waiting for the courts martial to be formed to tell him what he should have done so he could do it'
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Reading the Manchester news link it looks like the take-off was every bit as exciting as the landing: veered off the runway and clouted an earth bank.
Skydivers tend to be nervy passengers at the best of times, bet they were only to happy to get out of the door this time!
Wonder if the leg started to fail on the take-off run rather than when it contacted the bank?
Skydivers tend to be nervy passengers at the best of times, bet they were only to happy to get out of the door this time!
Wonder if the leg started to fail on the take-off run rather than when it contacted the bank?
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Perhaps it's something about Barton. Back in the summer of 1976 (IIRC), sitting in Junior 4 at Woodsend Primary School, there was an enormous bang. The teacher (Mr McCue) closed all the curtains and ran away.
A Cessna (150?) had crash-landed on the school field, the pilot had jumped out and the ac had carried on through a chain-link fence before the prop dug in and the plane then tipped onto its nose against the side of a house. The tail smashed into the guttering causing damage.
A cat died, but other than that, no injuries or anything. At the time, it was brilliant (I was 11!). It was only when I went back a few years later, and having done some 500 launches in gliders, did I realise quite what a feat it was - the field was tiny (about 70 metres long), with a spiked railing to get over and houses all around.
Anyone else remember it?
STH
A Cessna (150?) had crash-landed on the school field, the pilot had jumped out and the ac had carried on through a chain-link fence before the prop dug in and the plane then tipped onto its nose against the side of a house. The tail smashed into the guttering causing damage.
A cat died, but other than that, no injuries or anything. At the time, it was brilliant (I was 11!). It was only when I went back a few years later, and having done some 500 launches in gliders, did I realise quite what a feat it was - the field was tiny (about 70 metres long), with a spiked railing to get over and houses all around.
Anyone else remember it?
STH
I knew it!!
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The whole point of the flight was for the guys to jump anyway.
Once Gordon was airborne no-one with a set of kit was going to stay aboard whether the landing gear was intact or not.
Once Gordon was airborne no-one with a set of kit was going to stay aboard whether the landing gear was intact or not.
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Anyone else remember it?
As for the 185 incident, Gordo Cooper was in our Chippy group, and Ive flown with him in that 185. He is a very capable pilot of great experience - he's been flying that machine for years. I chatted with his wife at Barton on Saturday (she's a flying Barton member, too). Seems as well as many fire and ambulance appliances in attendance, the police helicopter was following around the sky as he burned off the fuel. Why? Thaink of the cost!
But what I hadn't realised is that as the (very heavy) leg deoarted the airframe, it clouted the tailplane. Both tailplane and elevator were well bent, and he was very lucky there was no control jam (they were in the air - just - when the wheel collided with the earth bank or wahtever did the damage)
SSD
