a thread about civilian or otherwise..

[Kaktus29]

.. planes that almost didn't make it back to the airfield and you have a link for all of us to see it..

 

i start with this Russian pilot flying a defunct Tu-154 that was "stored" since 2005 and was taken for a repair to other place.. with the take off, the pilot noticed the flight controls stopped working and he had to use the engines to get back and amazingly land it..

 

 

when you observe this Tu going all over the place i must think, wow, the pilot sure had to have lots of nerves to stay calm and not panic, which would be quite easy thinking "shit, i'm in a civilian plane, and i can't eject!" ..

 

and after all that land it without a scratch.. jesus wtf is my response..

[RagnarDa]

Wow! How did he/she do that?

[gear_monkey]

that is the world's best text book example of dutch roll in a swept wing aircraft.

[Krebs20]

That really put me on the edge of my seat! That's a great way to start off a new thread.

[aaron886]

I was under the impression it was a problem with the yaw damper rather than the engines, but either way it's terrifying indeed. I use that video as an example of dutch roll for flight students.

[NRG-Vampire]

[monotwix]

[monotwix]

I was under the impression it was a problem with the yaw damper rather than the engines, but either way it's terrifying indeed. I use that video as an example of dutch roll for flight students.

 

Use this one as an example of engine failure for flight students.

 

[Invader ZIM]

IDF F-15 multiple large bird strikes, two engines on fire, and safe landing both from the aircraft and the F-15 behind it.

 

Edited April 2, 2013 by Invader ZIM

[aaron886]

Use this one as an example of engine failure

 

More like an example of pilot failure! :shocking: They're lucky to be alive. Crazy video.

[Kaktus29]

just to think seating their in the cockpit and realizing the nightmare of flying this defunct plane with only engine control..

 

and then swooshing left and right to such an extent the damn thing looked like mig-29 with thrust vector control or something.. and still line up to the landing strip and landing without damaging the plane.. wow.. nerves of steel indeed..

 

love the calmness of other Russians in the airfield, its like nothing can get to them, yeah we have a plane in SOS mode, its all right, Ivan is gonna land it all right..

 

there's a meteorite sir flying across the sky.. okei, no worries, .. so it makes a little boom boom, who cares..

 

it does put it into perspectives when we complain about landing frogfoot in DCS in strong winds)) lol..

 

that video about the prop crashing into the lake is also quite something.. i had a feeling he tried too much to hold it in the air thus bleeding to much speed so he ended up descending too fast, almost stalling instead of gliding.. but in any case its bad and was a lucky pilot to get out of it alive..

 

about the DH plane, horrific.. the controls must have "stuck" of something.. terrible way to go, ..especially knowing you can't change anything, can't eject..just waiting there for it to end.. sad..

[monotwix]

[Kaktus29]

it would seem the harrier pilot wanted to rather crash land it and avoid the ejection.. after the flames erupted near the cockpit he had enough of "fun" and punched out..

 

good ejectio seat though, .. got him out safe at 0m altitude ..