Gear up....errr, oh

[mybrainhurts]

Ooops....

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-805682182...

There goes the no claims bonus....

[odyssey2200]

I bet there was a stand up meeting without coffee, after that stunt.

[ndtman]

Apparently this has happened a few times on Tornados. (Wait for the Tornado boys to confirm or lambast me!) Pilot pre selects undercarriage "up", nothing happens until weight is taken off undercarriage (weight on wheels switch deactivated)then undercarriage retracts even if you have subsequently aborted take off.

[Simpo Two]

David Beatty's book The Naked Pilot, on the human factor in aircraft accidents, reports a case of a Captain saying 'Cheer up!' being misheard as 'Gear up!'

[futie]

I have to say this is astonishing .. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-805682182...

[odyssey2200]

Where is that facepalm poster?

[mybrainhurts]

[dr_gn]

futie said:

I have to say this is astonishing .. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-805682182...

Astonishing you don't already know it's a fake...

[Mini1275]

futie said:

I have to say this is astonishing .. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-805682182...

[dr_gn]

Here's a good one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pucmWr55cgw

And another:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZVL4P8VP_g&fea...

And another:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVwlodvWh7w

Kid's 'n' water...

[MartG]

ndtman said:

Apparently this has happened a few times on Tornados. (Wait for the Tornado boys to confirm or lambast me!) Pilot pre selects undercarriage "up", nothing happens until weight is taken off undercarriage (weight on wheels switch deactivated)then undercarriage retracts even if you have subsequently aborted take off.

IIRC it also happened in early testing of the YF-16 - in a test the undercarriage was commanded to retract, but as the aircraft was stationary with the engine not running, nothing should have happened - apparently there was a rather expensive crunch.

Another F-16 software glitch was discovered during an early sales deployment to Australia - 4 F-16s were happily flying along, all on autopilot, when they all simultaneously rolled inverted. Seems the autopilot interpreted crossing the equator as the aircraft being upside down, so tried to correct the situation.

[happygoron]

MartG said:

Another F-16 software glitch was discovered during an early sales deployment to Australia - 4 F-16s were happily flying along, all on autopilot, when they all simultaneously rolled inverted. Seems the autopilot interpreted crossing the equator as the aircraft being upside down, so tried to correct the situation.

Ref for this? Can't belive it!

[futie]

..

[HereBeMonsters]

The most amazing thing I have learnt from this thread is that google video is still going. I would have thought after they acquired YouTube that they would have scrapped it.

[ndtman]

Happens on landing as well. £7.9 million to repair. Ouch!



http://www.zianet.com/tedmorris/dg/bombers4.html

[RizzoTheRat]

dr_gn said:

futie said:

I have to say this is astonishing .. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-805682182...

Astonishing you don't already know it's a fake...

This one however is real, I guess the F-15 is quite an effective lifting body.
http://www.strangemilitary.com/content/item/110099...

[mackie1]

Very nearly a dead Typhoon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwEAr5MtCbA

[Papoo]

What I enjoyed most of all in that video, is that around the 25 second mark, it seems the pilot elected to lower the gear. Oddly, to no real avail.

[dr_gn]

Papoo said:

What I enjoyed most of all in that video, is that around the 25 second mark, it seems the pilot elected to lower the gear. Oddly, to no real avail.

It looked to me like it did in fact take off a foot or so, but then sort of plopped back down again. Maybe it was an illusion?

[Simpo Two]

RizzoTheRat said:

This one however is real, I guess the F-15 is quite an effective lifting body.
http://www.strangemilitary.com/content/item/110099...

'I just needed a warning light in my panel to indicate that I missed a wing...'