High AOA?

[mules83]

is this a good example of a high AOA landing?

video

 

[Kickflip89]

jebus...vector'd thrust is pretty cool

 

[Herc_Dude]

Gotta imagine they have the sooped up gear on that bad boy, you see him slam that down?

 

[Shakey]

so cool...

 

[Flash]

It is an X-31, a joint US-German experimental aircraft. NASA's involvement ended in 1995 but it was revived by the Germans and the US Navy in the late '90's and cotinued testing into 2003:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/FactSheets/FS-009-DFRC.html

http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=1730

http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=4709

 

[Slammer2]

can the pilot even see in front of him angled up like that?

 

[Flash]

can the pilot even see in front of him angled up like that?

No, I don't think so. I believe that was one of the breakthroughs of the testing program, I think there was a cable show on it once.

 

[Brett327]

Cool and interesting, but probably not terribly useful in everyday ops. "Let's see, Vern, how can we come up with a landing configuration that maximizes both drag AND required thrust?"

Brett

 

[eddie]

any time you would want something like that??

 

[Brett327]

any time you would want something like that??

Elevator trim stuck full up? I don't know.

Brett

 

[Flash]

Cool and interesting, but probably not terribly useful in everyday ops. "Let's see, Vern, how can we come up with a landing configuration that maximizes both drag AND required thrust?"

Brett

I think the Navy helped revive the program to see if some application could be used in everyday CV ops. Not to say that F/A-18's would be landing on the boat like that but they wanted to see if that type of theing was feasible and if even a little bit could be applied to the boat.

 

[Flash]

Elevator trim stuck full up? I don't know.

Brett

Ever scrape the the fuel dump on the tail?

 

[thull]

can the pilot even see in front of him angled up like that?

I thought the new-fangled flight helmets had the built in omni-vision...rigged up to cameras around the plane. MAybe someone else could verify.

 

[Brett327]

Ever scrape the the fuel dump on the tail?

Tail skag? Not to my knowledges.

Brett

 

[raptor10]

ESTOL (Extremely short take off and landing) was the goal of the program (so I've read) Imagine large aircraft being able to land and take off within a carrier length, I have no idea what the impact on aviation, civil and military, would be but I'd imagine it would be large...