Dreamlifter loses a wheel
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2fast748

Original Poster:

1,234 posts

218 months

Wednesday 12th October 2022
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Dreamlifter lost a wheel taking off from Southern Italy yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTmahn2TlK4

Landed safely in Charleston:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u3WC6P3YkIM

There are other photos and videos about but I can't find them now.

A head on shot of the landing appears to show 1 element of the main landing gear not being extended and a distinct "list" as it lands safely being pursued by some fire tenders.

Boatbuoy

1,972 posts

185 months

Wednesday 12th October 2022
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By complete coincidence I watched that flight pass over the southern UK skies at about 10:30 yesterday morning.

4 engine jets are an ever decreasing sight, so it caught my eye.

DavePanda

6,793 posts

257 months

Wednesday 12th October 2022
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Was that filmed on a potato? 2022 and we still get barely viewable videos being uploaded

Condi

19,646 posts

194 months

Wednesday 12th October 2022
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The dreaded 17 wheel landing.


(Shamelessly stolen from the comments)

Koyaanisqatsi

2,517 posts

53 months

Thursday 13th October 2022
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DavePanda said:
Was that filmed on a potato? 2022 and we still get barely viewable videos being uploaded
Completely and utterly unacceptable resolution on that video for the year 2022, and the only thing vaguely in focus is the dirt on the ground at the end.

Eric Mc

124,769 posts

288 months

Thursday 13th October 2022
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My Video 8 footage from 1991 is WAY better than that.

Geneve

3,999 posts

242 months

Thursday 13th October 2022
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The undercarriage is the engineering componentry on an aircraft that I most admire - the forces, stresses and impacts that they take with, normally, unremitting reliability, is awesome.

FourWheelDrift

91,825 posts

307 months

Thursday 13th October 2022
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Barnes Wallis applauds the effort.

Simpo Two

91,249 posts

288 months

Thursday 13th October 2022
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Koyaanisqatsi said:
DavePanda said:
Was that filmed on a potato? 2022 and we still get barely viewable videos being uploaded
Completely and utterly unacceptable resolution on that video for the year 2022, and the only thing vaguely in focus is the dirt on the ground at the end.
Digital zoom at work perhaps. 'Unacceptable' as it might be (write a strongly-worded letter of protest to your MP) it allowed you see the incident.