Who needs undercarriage anyhow?
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Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:15 pmby Cap'n Wannabe
https://youtu.be/LWXndyhO3YMStory goes he made it back to his home airfield and remembered to lower the gear..
Re: Who needs undercarriage anyhow?
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Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:33 pmby VH-WAL
RAAF did that with a Phantom, just buggered the drop tanks that's all
Re: Who needs undercarriage anyhow?
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Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:34 pmby Cap'n Wannabe
VH-WAL wrote:RAAF did that with a Phantom, just buggered the drop tanks that's all
But did they do a touch and go?
Re: Who needs undercarriage anyhow?
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Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:47 pmby VH-WAL
sure did, as they climbed upwind pilot reached down to pull up the gear handle...it was already up.. he asked the backseater..did we just land wheels up? I don't recall his reply. The Pilot was a Sqn Ldr flight commander at 2FTS when I was at Pearce a couple of years after that event, I remember him telling the story at the bar one dining in night
Re: Who needs undercarriage anyhow?
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Sat Apr 25, 2015 10:59 amby RayS
A Mirage managed it at Tullamarine though it had no tanks and did not take off again. Apparently the pilot Cat 5'd the airframe and it never flew again.
Re: Who needs undercarriage anyhow?
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Sat Apr 25, 2015 12:01 pmby Adam the Akrodude
That's amazing! How were the props not buggered I wonder? Wonder also what the engine vibration was like after that?
Re: Who needs undercarriage anyhow?
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Sat Apr 25, 2015 12:06 pmby tor lives
This may as well have been a "touch and go"
All sorts of reasons why I love this!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igF1X48ddWATOR
Re: Who needs undercarriage anyhow?
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Sun Apr 26, 2015 11:52 pmby davecana
RayS wrote:A Mirage managed it at Tullamarine though it had no tanks and did not take off again. Apparently the pilot Cat 5'd the airframe and it never flew again.
Minor correction Ray, it did have drop tanks.
Matt Wood from ADF serials site posted this photobucket address.
http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb22 ... _00000.jpg
