Hows about this for a crosswind landing...?

[forthbridge]

:o :o :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCUHQ_-l6Qg

[RAF_Quantum]

Superb! I knew the B52 u/c bogies could be turned for crosswind landing but that's the first time I've seen them in action, thanks for the HU.

Regards

John

[DaveB]

Odd one that. I've seen aircraft coming in with much greater degrees of sideslip on. In the air.. it didn't look that fierce :o

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[Garry Russell]

Thte approach angle is not uncommon locally or more so

The only odd thing is the B-52 does not kick off drift due to the gear.

The long lens down the runway exaggerates the effect but as Dave says that is not fierce.

TBH is is rare in our part of the world to see an aircraft approach truly straight


Garry

[RAF_Quantum]

Hi Guys,

Yes, I agree there are far better youtube vids of crosswind landing especially the Boeing test flying for certification/testing or that bizjet landing at EGNM recently. I think the thing that catches the eye on this one, and what caused it's post here is the continued crab down the runway due to the gears rotation with no necessity to kick off any drift. For anyone that didn't know about this on the B52 it is indeed a curious oddity.

regards

John

[forthbridge]

Yeah - the way the B52 settles into the wind on the roll is what caught my eye - I read the comment about a crosswind and at first glance thought 'What crosswind?' - it just looks bizarre sliding down the runway as it does :flying:

[petermcleland]

I thought it was done with great skill and precision, especially with the deployment of that huge tail parachute

[forthbridge]

Funny you should say that Peter - I was just thinking that (at least some) of the angle is created by the 'chute itself dragging the tail of the A/C with it - no doubt a 'standard' aircraft a-la VC10 would not have looked so!

I must say looking at the exhaust trails and the tyresmoke, it is a brisker wind than I have ever seen at Leuchars near airshow weekend!

*edit - duplicate post deleted

[DaveB]

Undoubtedly.. pilot skill is to the foremost but I think the answers to that have already been given and it's more a case of the pilot knowing the aircraft and what the aircraft can (or can't) do. I certainly wouldn't say that was an easy landing.. for a B52 pilot but one which would have been dealt with in a less dramatic way in a-n-other type. It must be a known limitation of the type hence Boeing making the landing gear swivel off it's normal axis. Most other aircraft would have enough rudder authority to kick off the drift.. something the B52 apparently cannot do but which is able to overcome in a very clever way ;-)

ATB

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[steelsporran]

Odd one that. I've seen aircraft coming in with much greater degrees of sideslip on. In the air.. it didn't look that fierce :o
ATB
DaveB :tab:

Didn't know about the bogies, should be mandatory for landing at NZWN :flying:
Any other a/c got them?