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Jimbuna

07-19-15 07:42 AM

Spitfire makes an emergency landing without wheels.

This pilot is so skillful and as cool as a cucumber during the situation :sunny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbkFeaO-bDg

It looks like the Spitfire is a 2/3 scale replica.

Aktungbby

07-19-15 07:53 AM

Nicely done per rule ONE: "any one you walk away from...:up:" I wonder if he killed the motor (cant tell) to save prop/engine damage? EDIT: On second look there's engine sound and the flaps down full on turf landing do add traction on touch down. He didn't slide 60'. He had obviously done his 'Sully what if' homework beforehand!
It happens this is the anniversary of this famous landing at Sioux City Iowa 1989:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxILIkyYVac of 296 people on board, 185 survived! Many reforms in aviation were instigated due to this mess...

u crank

07-19-15 07:53 AM

Wow. Lucky lad and a good wheels up landing.

Oberon

07-19-15 07:53 AM

"One of your elite, trying to land without wheels..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVKPS5aPvOc

Torplexed

07-19-15 07:57 AM

Picture perfect landing. :up: I can see why so many RAF pilots weren't out of the fight for long in the BoB.

Oberon

07-19-15 08:21 AM

Indeed, was a damn good belly landing. :yep: But...err...didn't he have an emergency gear bottle? :hmmm: Would have thought that would be one of the systems that you'd install in a replica... :hmmm:

Still, good landing nevertheless, the erks would have been happy enough with it. :yep:

Platapus

07-20-15 03:38 PM

Technically, the aircraft still had wheels, the pilot just could not deploy them. :smug::D

Schroeder

07-20-15 05:29 PM

Actually a wheels up landing is technically pretty much the same as a normal landing. You use the exact same skills and control inputs. The only difference is that you put her on her belly and not on her wheels. I would even say he brought her down fairly roughly.:hmm2:

Commander Wallace

08-14-15 07:25 AM

Great landing. Skilled pilot as well. I had no idea they made replica spitfires on a 2/3 scale. I learned there are also full scale ME-262's made as well with more reliable Pratt and Whitney turbo jets in the ancillary pods on the wings.

It hustles through the air quite nicely and pretty fast :yep:

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