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How Do You Land This Plane?

Brons2 From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 2972 posts, RR: 5
Posted (4 years 2 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 3691 times:

...without scraping the belly!

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Pacif...nes/Grumman-G-21A-Goose/1471344/L/

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Phoenix9 From Canada, joined Aug 2007, 2546 posts, RR: 8
Reply 1, posted (4 years 2 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 3676 times:

The hull suggests it is a float/water plane and wheels are just used for towing (e.g. like a boat) or taxing. Vancouver airport is surrounded by water on 3 sides (or 2 can't remember), so there might be some way of landing in water and taxing on the tarmac. I might be completely wrong though.

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Lowrider From United States of America, joined Jun 2004, 3220 posts, RR: 10
Reply 2, posted (4 years 2 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 3669 times:

Its an amphibian. I would guess the manual recommends wheel landings only, no 3 pointers. Also, the struts look almost fully compressed. I imagine they would bottom out before you cause significant damage to the keel. If you have a really bad day, you might lose 1/16 of an inch or so, but those Grummans were built tough.

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Tdscanuck From Canada, joined Jan 2006, 12709 posts, RR: 80
Reply 3, posted (4 years 2 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 3653 times:

Quoting Brons2 (Thread starter):
...without scraping the belly!

The only way to scrape the gear on that is to land really nose down, just like any other tail-dragger. Even full strut compression won't do it.

Tom.

Starlionblue From Hong Kong, joined Feb 2004, 15904 posts, RR: 66
Reply 4, posted (4 years 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 3572 times:

First of all, let's properly link the pic:

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Then, let's add two more aircraft that must be fun landing. They are both designed by the same ~~nutjob~~ genius.

Proteus

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White Knight

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KELPkid From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 5962 posts, RR: 4
Reply 5, posted (4 years 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 3568 times:

Like you would any other taildragger...carefully! cool

There are two types of taildragger pilots-those who have groundlooped the plane, and those who will Wink

Celebrating the birth of KELPkidJR on August 5, 2009 :-)

2H4 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 8950 posts, RR: 62
Reply 6, posted (4 years 2 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 3435 times:

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Quoting Starlionblue (Reply 4):
White Knight

Whenever I look at that aircraft, I get this vision of pushing a shopping cart with the one bad front wheel. You know...the wheel that annoyingly flutters back and forth as you push the cart along.

2H4

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David L From United Kingdom, joined May 1999, 9245 posts, RR: 42
Reply 7, posted (4 years 1 week 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 3235 times:

Quoting 2H4 (Reply 6):
Whenever I look at that aircraft, I get this vision of pushing a shopping cart with the one bad front wheel. You know...the wheel that annoyingly flutters back and forth as you push the cart along.

It didn't before but, now you mention it... biggrin

FredT From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2002, 2184 posts, RR: 26
Reply 8, posted (4 years 1 week 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 3234 times:

Quoting Brons2 (Thread starter):
[How do you land this plane...] ...without scraping the belly!

It is equipped with an advanced belly-scrape-avoidance system, the Ground Entanglement Avoidance Roller. The system is rather complex and heavy, but has been found to almost completely avoid belly-scrapes in a vast number of aircraft types. You can see it in the linked picture, the round things at the bottom of the plane. It is often referred to as "the landing gear" or "undercarriage".

Sorry, it was stronger than me. Wink

I thought I was doing good trying to avoid those airport hotels... and look at me now.

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