Veltro

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XuMylC7gSc[/youtube]

Watch the elevators and rudder. The pilot (Pete John) never panics and never stops flying the plane.

Ram-bro

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I guess I do do scale landings after watching this.......

invertmast

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that was a helluva bump at the beginning of the runway. Great job on the pilot for keeping the prop out of the ground and the airplane in effectively one piece.

Mustangman40

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i thought the same thing at first..I had to watch it a few times to figure out why it shot back up like it did, at first i thought it was the pilots fault. But it looks like he jumped the runway and did a heck of a job keeping it on it's mains...
I didn't know that ESM made full scale retracts......

Chad Veich

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The airplane experienced a power failure while on short final and landed short of the runway and caught the edge of a taxi way which is what launched the airplane back into the air. This happened a number of years ago but the video seems to be making the rounds again for whatever reason.

Veltro

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Steve Connor, the guy who shot the video, posted it on his website 2 days ago. He's probably trying to draw attention to the various videos he sells. He does excellent work. It was nice to see some of his footage in a recent Military Channel program about fighters.

scale only 4 me

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If you look closely the runway is in the back ground,, he's puttng down in the grass for some reason

STUKA BARRY

That was one hard landing. The pilot must be a modeler cause he got right on the elevator saving a prop strike. Those gear would've colapsed if they were ESM, definitely Sierra gear, Darrell would've been proud....

wingspar

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Looks like he needs to call Darrell.

Dave

crashproof

Just goes to show if you land "Dicey" any gear will tweak. Guess I will just stick with my Robarts, save some money, and keep working on Landing properly. Kevin.

invertmast

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how do you know they don't have another grass runway that they use?

Experten109/40

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also, we don't know how severe his engine problem was. sometimes they don't have a choise. if it
has to land now.. its going to land now.

Chad Veich

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This was at Duxford in England and it is not uncommon (at all actually) for them to operate off of the grass. In fact I don't think I've ever seen a picture or video of a Spitfire using the paved runway at Dux!

spaceworm

Likely for the same reason that "we" fly our taildraggers off of grass?

Sincerely, Richard

spad

From watching the way it sinks in the closing moments of the approach I would say he was struggling to "stretch" the glide and actually landed well short of the optimum. There's no other reason to land short of the cross taxiway - they never do during the airshows.
As Chad says, the Spits (and 109s, P-40s) always use the grass. The P-51s however often use the paved runway (wide track U/C?) but I would imagine he had the thought that less damage from a grass landing if it went a bit more wrong than it did?

Great save by him anyway!

cheers
Rick

51-D GUY

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I agree , the Pilot did a great job ,

But the prop does hit the dirt a little , Look at the video closer , " after he's on the ground again , & it's looking like a noseover ,

Just as the tail swings around inline with the camera angle ," Look at the ground between the gear , you can see the dirt being

kicked up ,

it's not much , but , this kept it from getting the spinner dirty. & maybe , Just maybe , kept it from a complete ground loop due to the bent left gear .




51-D GUY