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Landing Gear -- "Three down and locked...F#@K"

I saw this guy fly at the Pensacola air show last fall in his F-86. Beautiful plane and demo... hope the plane wasn't too badly damaged!
 
nugget81 said:
There are two types of pilots in the world:
1. Those who have landed gear up
2. Those who will....

Sorry ... don't want to hurt your "feelings", nugget ... :) .... But .... that's complete bullsh!t. Suggestion: don't buy into know-nothing "sayings" like that ... you'll be way ahead.

 
I've seen him fly several times at Airshows, he's a great pilot for sure. He was the (or one of the first) first pilot out of flight school to ever get Tomcats is what I heard at an airshow.

Aside from the warning indicators in the cockpit, I'm wondering why the tower didn't catch this in time, if at all?
 
That sucks. I bet that ruined the poor dudes day. Everyone makes mistakes I guess.
 
nugget81 said:
There are two types of pilots in the world:
1. Those who have landed gear up
2. Those who will....
Nah, those who will have a safe cat launch, and those that don't.


(Warning and note to readers: snort has not been able to verify that he is a Naval Aviator
 
flysupertomcat said:
Aside from the warning indicators in the cockpit, I'm wondering why the tower didn't catch this in time, if at all?

Coffee sippers... don't trust em. I have a whole whopping 2 years of Naval aviation experience and tower has tried to kill me more than a handful of times.
 
flysupertomcat said:
Aside from the warning indicators in the cockpit, I'm wondering why the tower didn't catch this in time, if at all?

Remember the relationship between ATC and pilots:

-If the pilot screws up badly, the pilot dies.
-If ATC screws up badly, the pilot dies.

And just like Fly said, in my (slightly shorter) aviation experience I've had enough backwards clearances, wrong-way vectors and mistimed calls for downwind to put my faith in someone else. It's your airplane . . . and as this shows sh*t can happen to the best of us . . .
 
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