Bad Landing

hey bob, you will never believe what happened on the way home from work yesterday, lol
 
Having been in the Air Force, I've seen sites like that. Wish I had a picture of this, but I'll try and explain it. Pilots sometimes make what is called a "skip" takeoff. What they do is to run down the runway and when they have achieved enough speed to fly, they will simply retract the landing gear and then rotate (climb). One time, this high ranking General tried this and was a bit shy of air speed. He tore the heck out of the belly of his jet fighter. Tax money paid for that.
 
Buck........being a son of an ex-Air Force pilot and airline pilot and having a fair amount of flight time myself, we call that "cowboying". Impressive when it works, but boy it's embarrassing when it doesn't.:eek:
 
Originally posted by DE Wrangler 2
Buck........being a son of an ex-Air Force pilot and airline pilot and having a fair amount of flight time myself, we call that "cowboying".  Impressive when it works, but boy it's embarrassing when it doesn't.:eek:
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My grandpa was an pilot in the airforce. He told me a story about a B-47 (He flew those but wasn't invovled in this crash) who was taking off when they lost some engines and plowed about 7 other B-47s. Obviously they died which is sad. Took out alot of the pavement as well. He is always telling me stories of him in the military. Some I don't want to know either.
 
Originally posted by DE Wrangler 2
"cowboying".  Impressive when it works, but boy it's embarrassing when it doesn't.:eek:
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I once saw a guy do this with a P-51. Now that impressed very much. The bird the general damaged was an F-106. My friend had a devil of a time fixing it.
 
Good thing they didn't have to do an emergency landing while that guy was mooning the camera.

That was probably a picture they took for one of those aviation magazines. That would have been even funnier if they hadn't caught that, as I'm sure they did.
 
Years ago I was on a patrol Flight in the Med off of North Africa. We were doing a little surveilance work. We picked up a MIG escort, normal thing when we got near sensitive areas. After taking the normal pictures of this fully armed MIG one of our flight crew pulled down his suit and mooned the Russain pilot. Didn't think it was a good ideal, here we are in a big aircraft with 14 men aboard and unarmed harrassing a Russian pilot that had enough armenment to shoot us down many times. But he took it well had a big laugh and gave the thumbs up. Sometimes the cold war was fun, sometimes scary as hell.
 
i dont know officer, i turned left at the flashing light like my directions say and whammo. :eek:
 
84, great story. I'm sure things can get quit cozy for enemies when there isn't any real threat around. The Mig pilot was just doing his job and he knew you guys were as well. I'm sure their guys have done some of the same kinds of stuff to our fighter pilots.
 
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