A380 vs Storm Dennis

[Simpo Two]

Awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeVEbYHmTcM&fb...

is it me or does he seem to turn off the runway very quickly and go onto the grass just as it ends?

[dvs_dave]

Hairy looking for sure.

But the random follow on vid that came up is a cracker. The running commentary is hilarious.

https://youtu.be/qPQQBvkM9IA

She’s got dirty flaps!!

[Tony1963]

Simpo Two said:

Awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeVEbYHmTcM&fb...

is it me or does he seem to turn off the runway very quickly and go onto the grass just as it ends?

With the very long telephoto zoom being used, it’s impossible to tell if he went off the tarmac. However, if it’d gone onto the grass, it would probably have come to a rapid stop, especially as Britain is soaked, ground is soft.

[DJFish]

dvs_dave said:

Hairy looking for sure.

But the random follow on vid that came up is a cracker. The running commentary is hilarious.

https://youtu.be/qPQQBvkM9IA

She’s got dirty flaps!!

“Easy son, Easy!”

[john2443]

Tony1963 said:

With the very long telephoto zoom being used, it’s impossible to tell if he went off the tarmac. However, if it’d gone onto the grass, it would probably have come to a rapid stop, especially as Britain is soaked, ground is soft.

A poster on Twitter said hat he turned off the runway onto the Taxi way, seems reasonable, wouldn't think the wind would blow him onto the grass!

[Gary C]

I'm sat in Switzerland waiting for my flight to Manchester.

is it windy at home ?

[Buzz84]

I'd imagine that if the A380 had gone off in the grass given the weight of it and the soggy ground it would have dug in and got stuck.
Which would closed the runway and been a major job to get it out. That would have been all over the news...

[Eric Mc]

DJFish said:

dvs_dave said:

Hairy looking for sure.

But the random follow on vid that came up is a cracker. The running commentary is hilarious.

https://youtu.be/qPQQBvkM9IA

She’s got dirty flaps!!

“Easy son, Easy!”

He comes across as a bit of a twerp, I have to say - even if it is "entertaining" and most likely a deliberate tactic to get noticed.

[tangerine_sedge]

Wow, some 'interesting' landings there. I think my favourite was the dash 8 (I'm not a commercial aircraft spotter, so apologies if it was something else) - he was never going to make it, then he did!

As a passenger, the scariest landing I ever had was coming in sideways at Brussels, I was looking out the side window and looking straight down the runway. I'm a good air traveller, but that even had me gripping the armrests

[Eric Mc]

I remember watching C-5A Galaxies landing at Dublin Airport in the 1970s as they tried to land on the old Runway 24 (now closed) in a gale of a cross wind. The Galaxy has a swivelling main undercarriage set so it could actually land directly on the runway with the entire fuselage pointing up to 45 degrees away from the direction of travel.

This is a more recent arrival of a C-5 at Dublin -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUvLdamNLg0

[aeropilot]

Simpo Two said:

Awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeVEbYHmTcM&fb...

is it me or does he seem to turn off the runway very quickly and go onto the grass just as it ends?

It says it at Heathrow, but it doesn't look like Heathrow to me......

[GliderRider]

The sideloads on the undercarriage at touchdown must be immense. Clearly a wet runway and tyre scrub will dissipate some of it.

There are times when a selection of runways for different wind directions as they used to have, must seem like a really good idea.

Edited by GliderRider on Sunday 16th February 11:23

[Krikkit]

Eric Mc said:

I remember watching C-5A Galaxies landing at Dublin Airport in the 1970s as they tried to land on the old Runway 24 (now closed) in a gale of a cross wind. The Galaxy has a swivelling main undercarriage set so it could actually land directly on the runway with the entire fuselage pointing up to 45 degrees away from the direction of travel.

This is a more recent arrival of a C-5 at Dublin -

That's a great factoid, obviously a design choice to increase the number of landing site possibilities in an emergency.

[anonymous-user]

GliderRider said:

The sideloads on the undercarriage at touchdown must be immense. Clearly a wet runway and tyre scrub will dissipate some of it.

There are times when a selection of runways for different wind directions as they used to have, must seem like a really good idea.

Edited by GliderRider on Sunday 16th February 11:23

Most U.K. runways are east west, which fits in with the prevailing winds, it’s not that often we see strong winds from the south like this. Plus most aircraft have pretty big crosswind limits nowadays.

Often the crosswind limits are less on a wet runway.

[wolfracesonic]

GliderRider said:

The sideloads on the undercarriage at touchdown must be immense. Clearly a wet runway and tyre scrub will dissipate some of it.

There are times when a selection of runways for different wind directions as they used to have, must seem like a really good idea.

Edited by GliderRider on Sunday 16th February 11:23

‘You’re cleared to land , take your pick, there’s plenty to choose from’.

[FourWheelDrift]

Gary C said:

I'm sat in Switzerland waiting for my flight to Manchester.

is it windy at home ?

Just wait there a bit longer and Manchester will be along soon.

[HoHoHo]

GliderRider said:

The sideloads on the undercarriage at touchdown must be immense. Clearly a wet runway and tyre scrub will dissipate some of it.

There are times when a selection of runways for different wind directions as they used to have, must seem like a really good idea.

Edited by GliderRider on Sunday 16th February 11:23

The attached photo shows in red the NE runway that used to exist and I remember many, many years ago landing in a Tristar on what would be the that runway in conditions much like the A380 was fighting - hence landing in that direction. If that old runway was still in existence that’s the one they would have used last week and the wind would be blowing straight down it.

The yellow mark shows the runway they were using to land last weekend for the most part of the storm.

[HoHoHo]

You can still see some of that very runway on google earth

[Simpo Two]

I wish Heathrow was like that today. Park car, walk 100 yards to small building, hand over ticket, get on 'plane.

[Eric Mc]

Trying to land big, heavy tail wheel equipped aircraft such as Lancastrians or Tudors would have been virtually impossible without that array of runway choices.