Nasty x-wind landings: big Boeing test flights

[beaky]

Check this out:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... +777&hl=en

[flyboy 28]

Seen that before. That can't be good for the main landing gear.

[SkyNoz]

So gracefull!

[Hai Perso Coyone?]

BPB by me...Fun to watch though

[Isak922]

Nice vid  ;D If I saw a plane landing like that in a real airport and I didn't know better I'd freak out  :o

[cheesegrater]

That video reassures me that air travel is safe.

Then there are the videos where the aircraft turns into a fireball.

You have no idea how much I got pissed off when the morons at CNN said the A380 landing was bad. Or when someone lands at Kai Tak off-center people say it's a bad landing. Keep your mouth shut unless you can do better.

[Nexus]

. Or when someone lands at Kai Tak off-center people say it's a bad landing. Keep your mouth shut unless you can do better.

You still cant accept that the Alitalia MD11 was a bad landing can you?  ;D

Geez...you need to let it go man. And the A380 landing at LHR wasn't really a school book example. I'm pretty sure the pilots heard that one way or another.  ;)

[Isak922]

A "bad" landing in my book is one where once the plane hits the ground the wings fall off  ;D I never said those were bad landing in the video... I just said if I were a normal every day person without a hint of flying knowledge I'd freak out if a plane did that at the airport  ;)

[Boss_BlueAngels]

Pfft.. and my instructor always got so mad when I'd side-load a Cessna 150... Pfft...

[elite marksman]

IMO, the only "bad" landing is one where you fail to land intact. Some may not look pretty and they might jar the pax a little, but at least you are on the ground again, and still alive.  

[Red_Kite]

I remember posting this a while ago in the FS9 thread. Although it was the version w/o the Spanish subtitles and much more appropriate music IMO!  :P  

[Nexus]

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[Red_Kite]

OK and I suppose you are going to tell me that this landing was intended to test the tyre pressures!

[Nexus]

I'm only calling a spade a spade, and now you know the background to those videos.

Regarding the new ones you posted, the first one is an Alitalia MD11 at Kai TAk (again). And I've had a lenghty debate abotu that video. Yes the landing is a poor one.

[Red_Kite]

OK, don't take my comments to heart! You seem to know a lot about these aviation clips. What then was the reason for the sudden direction change of that landing Jumbo? When I first saw it I thought it was a very cool extreme Xwind landing but having seen how the smoke from the tyres remains static after touchdown it clearly has nothing to do with Xwinds.