Emergency landing- engines flameout and Emergency ejection. P-51 and F-82

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i like unusual scary landings :shock: maybe because i landed and took off in a cessna 152 in a bumpy field once :shock: with not enough room, and barely cleared a car on a cross road just as it took off :roll: :oops:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFTFCfcnqF8
 
Matt Gruber said:
i like unusual scary landings :shock: maybe because i landed and took off in a cessna 152 in a bumpy field once :shock: with not enough room, and barely cleared a car on a cross road just as it took off :roll: :oops:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFTFCfcnqF8

Was your bumpy field in Columbia or something :lol:

I like that youtube channel, The History Guy.
 
more history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8PREX7TbbI

1957 mid air collision
 
Matt Gruber said:
more history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8PREX7TbbI
Richie Valens was later killed in a plane crash :cry:
He sure had a good reason to be afraid to fly

History guy screwed up. Ritchie Valens was not afraid to fly, he had not witnessed the earlier crash. He wasn't supposed to be on the chartered plane but he begged and begged. It wasn't the first time he'd flown, or the second. I don't remember but I believe they gave the count in debunking the fear of flying myth. The fear of flying theme was created for the Lou Diamond Phillips film where you know how the movie ends but they wanted to build some tension. So of course everyone knows Hollywood would never lie to them, so they believe the movie.

Oh, the family insists there was no trouble between the two brothers, either. And that the one brother wasn't really getting in all that much trouble. But Hollywood just had to make their boring lives seem more exciting.
 
re- titled :oops:
 
Never had a sporty landing in a plane, or jet. But quite a few qualified when I was the pilot of the hot air balloon.

Best one, landed, sort of, in the top of a pine tree a hundred feet up. This was high in the mts, so the balloon flew very different, and I was a new pilot.

Got stuck there, about to have the basket flip over and dump us out. So I hit the burner and flashed a hole in the balloon about 20 feet in size. That got us hot and we took off again from the tree top. Landed quite hard downwind of the tree. The two teenage girls thought it was great fun. I was thinking their dads were going to get a rope.

Another time, had two adult ladies aboard, and was above Albuquerque in way too much wind. People died that day in other balloons, blown into power lines. I was headed downtown to the skyscrapers on a line that perfectly followed a power line, at 25 mph. ( way too fast to land balloons) Finally the road took a bend, and I hit a tiny open field next to a warehouse like a falling piano. Only time I actually got out and kissed the ground.

Lots of other sporty landings, its just part of flying a gas bag 7 stories tall. But those two were the ones I thought I might not make it alive.
 
good story dan,
it was more fun when we were young :mrgreen:
 
does not get any more scary than this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG-6nHwfyts
not really a landing - more like flying lower and lower until contacting the ground hard and FAST :roll:
But the crew lived to tell the tale!
 
Ever forget to tighten the oil filter or leave out the drain plug? :oops:
They do something like this on jets too! :oops:
Everyone lives to tell the tale, except the damaged engines of course. they flame out when starved for oil and seize up. :oops:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7xAOV4_FBo
 
Matt Gruber said:
does not get any more scary than this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG-6nHwfyts
not really a landing - more like flying lower and lower until contacting the ground hard and FAST :roll:
But the crew lived to tell the tale!

It's called a controlled descent into terrain. I remember they said they had experts in simulators all over the place trying to figure out how to control and land the plane, but the simulator "Fell out of the sky." They basically concluded that it was impossible to do even what they did. This one came up in my ground school.
 
ground school? are you a pilot :?: 8)
 
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Used to be, that was in better days financially. I WAS going to build my own Falco F.8 with a Continental turbo engine that would take those 39 gallon tanks from the L.A. area (Pomona, El Monte, CHINO!!!!) to San Antone or closer (Gillespie, Bulverde) nonstop, 6 hours.

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Picture that thing with the Navy Test Programme colors.

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Ah, but being a private pilot is one of the Lord's ways of telling you that you have too much money. One day, that particular message stopped coming. Pilot no longer. My Falco F.8 was not to be.

I'd settle for a SkyPup at this point. https://machnone.com/plans.html

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:bigthumb:
i looked at a cheap Aircoupe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiK5aC-5ulA
in the 70's when i took some lessons. never got a license, very expensive hobby :|
 
Matt Gruber said:
:bigthumb:
i looked at a cheap Aircoupe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiK5aC-5ulA
Ercoupes are cool, but they tried to make them "foolproof" by limiting upward elevator authority. Makes them much harder to stall - but also hard to land well on short runways. You have to keep extra speed on to keep enough elevator authority to land.
 
my instructor did tell me something about landing them. i wasn't too good at landing a 152 :oops: so i figured i'd have to modify it :lol: a friend built his own plane in the 90's. it was difficult to control on his 1st flight :oops: so he modified it and on his 2nd test, he crashed and was killed.
yesterday i was driving my 61 vette, and it was way to hot, oil psi was bouncing around, and it was rough at low rpm. made it home, and no looking for a place to land :lol:
 
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Or a "Freedom Fighter"

Matt Gruber said:
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1 second before the crash - they ejected 8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFyswXc5aHQ&ab_channel=Underworld
 
markz said:
Or a "Freedom Fighter"

Matt Gruber said:
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I missed this before. The Freedom Fighter was the F5 and the next generation F20. Kewl plane still in use nearly 70 years after initial development began, Iran is even building their own knockoff of it today. The F20 was supposed to be better than the already entrenched F16 but only an export fighter when Reagan authorized the F16 for export, leaving other countries wanting the same thing the U.S. military was using. Even thought the F20 was so much cheaper.

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The F5 was the Tiger, but also called the Freedom Fighter because it was the advanced jet fighter that our friends were allowed to buy.

It all started with the end of WWII and the realization that jets were going to overtake prop planes for military use. The U.S. Navy could launch some 6,000 planes from the 3 Midway supercarriers, 24 Essex class and 3 prewar fleet carriers, 10 light fleet and 73 escort 'Jeep' carriers. The light carriers were used in jet tests but struggled, the escort carriers had no hope. UNLESS----

Well, guess what, the development of the light jet fighter ended with the Navy deciding they didn't need those escort carriers going forward. (Probably good thinking, but Jeep carriers were fun.) Northrup didn't give up that easy, the project became the T38 Talon trainer. This meant it would be easy to continue work on the regular fighter version, which the Air Force operated several successfully in Vietnam. This led to it being used in the 'Aggressor' role in training and combat exercises. More than 30 companies operated some 2,200 built by Northrup and something close to 1,000 more built by the countries themselves.

And dang, the F20 Tigershark was still the F5, they just tried to shake the image of not being the front line fighter with a new designation. But since the U.S. military didn't take it and the planes they DID take were made available, even if the F20 was cheaper.

In the movie 'Top Gun' the F5 played the MiG 28. Growing up it was a favorite of mine, what a high tech jet fighter SHOULD look like.
 
these pilots can shake coconuts out of the trees :lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECoOlB-cNG8&ab_channel=Johnny
 
Stunning launch of the Falcon 9 :shock: ran outside and holy crap it was moving fast :shock: saw the 1st stage drop off :shock: wild pulsing, never saw anything like it :bigthumb: was more like a movie with a UFO 8) 8)
EDIT the TV weatherman was trying to explain it,- while it was still dark here on earth, the rocket was hit by the sun :kff: as stage 1 fell off causing a spectacular show........ 8) the sun hit gasses which pulsed and kind of glowed like a force field was there or something :?
 
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