Cool things seen on FlightRadar
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red_slr said:
There was a very hard landing at Newark this morning and it looks like the aircraft will be a total loss. Very lucky for all on board, the nose gear has bucked but remained locked and pushed back into the fuse. The main gear lost tyres and no doubt did some damage in the gear bay.
Bounce on landing, resulting in nose wheel hitting hard. It’s happened a few times on the 757.
red_slr said:
That's the one. I wonder if it was landing heavy too? That's a lot of damage. Apparently it was quite gusty yesterday at Newark.
Yeah that’s what causes the bounce. It’s a hard landing (on the main gear), then it becomes airborne again and ends up coming down nose wheel first the second time. The first hard landing damaged the main gear which is very difficult in a B757 as it’s very strong. You can also damage the wing spar.
When you land nose first there’s all kind of bad things that can happen as it affects steering and there’s loads of important cables and controls etc in the nose wheel area coming from the flight deck above.
A Britannia B757 crashed in Girona years ago like this. A combination of weather and other factors led to a nose wheel touchdown and the nose gear pushed up into the cabin, damaging connections between the thrust levers and the engines and making one engine spool up by itself.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Airways_...
JPJPJP said:
Apparently it lost 2 engines. Good job it still had 6 left...https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2019-06-18/b-52-pl...
LotusOmega375D said:
JPJPJP said:
Apparently it lost 2 engines. Good job it still had 6 left...https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2019-06-18/b-52-pl...
A military pilot called for a priority landing because his single-engine jet fighter was running "a bit peaked." Air Traffic Control told the fighter pilot that he was number two, behind a B-52 that had one engine shut down. "Ah," the fighter pilot remarked, "The dreaded seven-engine approach."
LotusOmega375D said:
JPJPJP said:
Apparently it lost 2 engines. Good job it still had 6 left...https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2019-06-18/b-52-pl...
We both said it looked like a B52 but by the time the trees cleared it had gone.
Not something you see every day, not in Suffolk anyway!
Supercilious Sid said:
yellowjack said:
An unusual and distinctive sound disturbed my DIY efforts a few minutes ago. Sounded like a Harvard to me, so I legged it to fetch my binos and it certainly looked like one too. In company with some high-wing trike, heading out of Bournemouth toward Hengistbury Head and the Isle Of White. According to FlightRadar, it's the Dave Gilmour North American SNJ-7C Texan G-BRVG...
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-brvg...
Probably logical as he has a place in Beaulieu.https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-brvg...
Edited by yellowjack on Thursday 6th June 15:32
ecsrobin said:
In London today when a pair of white AW139 went past in formation. Only time I’ve seen formation flying along the helilanes was military aircraft.
A quick check of Flightradar24 showed a solo AW139 no other details. Adsb exchange has it as a AW139 of the Dubai air wing.
Sheikh Mohammed Makhtoum? Been at Ascot today.. A quick check of Flightradar24 showed a solo AW139 no other details. Adsb exchange has it as a AW139 of the Dubai air wing.
Not spotted, but pretty interesting for the thread..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westray_to_Papa_We...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westray_to_Papa_We...
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