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F-16 dead stick landing

Reminds me of why I felt so fortunate to spend my flying time in the Lockheed P-3C Orion. One engine craps out, you still got three to get home on; and we flew home on three engines more times than I care to remember. :)
 
Pilot did a good job of pitching around his AOA to control his rate of decent and airspeed.
I can imagine what his stall speed in a landing configuration is, but imagine its gotta be above a 100 knots. Hell of an envelope to fly in with no engine spinning. Sure dropped from 10000 MSL pretty damn quick. Pilot made it look easy.
 
Man that had to be a hair raising experience, great pilot...
 
Good videos, The pilot in the first one sounded fairly calm, i was thinking the same thing watching it,, with the tanks. Those guys must be top notch pilots for sure, That F-15 is one is for the books..
 
I'd be making a lot more fuss than just breathing heavy... when that voice goes "WARNING WARNING!" I'd be saying "Shut up, bitch! I don't need to hear that crap right now, I'm busy trying not to die!"
 
I'm sure he got some cool points from his boss landing a plane with one wing.
 
pabster said:
I'd be making a lot more fuss than just breathing heavy... when that voice goes "WARNING WARNING!" I'd be saying "Shut up, bitch! I don't need to hear that crap right now, I'm busy trying not to die!"
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That's why she is refered to as "Bitching Betty"...No Joke
 
Ron 73 said:
Good videos, The pilot in the first one sounded fairly calm, i was thinking the same thing watching it,, with the tanks. Those guys must be top notch pilots for sure, That F-15 is one is for the books..
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Not all the time. :) I was on a flight one day where our P-3C was flying off the wing of a Bear-F (the Soviet version of our P-3C). We had two F-15s out there with us who kept getting in our way.

One of the F-15s decided to get cute and get up underneath the Bear-F and angle his nose up so it looked like he was about to blast the Bear-F out of the sky while his wingman took pictures. This eagle jockey didn't know that unlike the Bear-D they intercepted more often, the Bear-F is a subhunter, and was out there dropping their sonobuoys (about six feet long, 10" in diameter, and weighs quite a bit). We tried to warn the F-15s the Bear-F was about to start dropping sonobuoys, but the wing wipers didn't seem to understand the danger and kept playing around.

A few seconds later, the Bear-F started dropping buoys and the first one out went flying towards that F-15. The Eagle driver about stood that bird on its tail trying to slow down and the buoy missed his nose by inches. He winged over and moved off about 2k yards from the Bear-F. :) That guy had to seriously clean out his underwear after that close encounter. On the upside those two wing wipers kept their distance from both of our planes after that.
 
Amazing. Kudos to the calm, steady breathing of the Eagle driver. Todays fighter pilots are not the cowboys of WWII. These guys are something else.
 
sorry

Bruzilla said:
Not all the time. :) I was on a flight one day where our P-3C was flying off the wing of a Bear-F (the Soviet version of our P-3C). We had two F-15s out there with us who kept getting in our way.

One of the F-15s decided to get cute and get up underneath the Bear-F and angle his nose up so it looked like he was about to blast the Bear-F out of the sky while his wingman took pictures. This eagle jockey didn't know that unlike the Bear-D they intercepted more often, the Bear-F is a subhunter, and was out there dropping their sonobuoys (about six feet long, 10" in diameter, and weighs quite a bit). We tried to warn the F-15s the Bear-F was about to start dropping sonobuoys, but the wing wipers didn't seem to understand the danger and kept playing around.

A few seconds later, the Bear-F started dropping buoys and the first one out went flying towards that F-15. The Eagle driver about stood that bird on its tail trying to slow down and the buoy missed his nose by inches. He winged over and moved off about 2k yards from the Bear-F. :) That guy had to seriously clean out his underwear after that close encounter. On the upside those two wing wipers kept their distance from both of our planes after that.
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I wasn't ignoring your post, I just seen it.. That does sound like a scary moment.. As fast as those are flying (have no idea but can imagine) and to play games just isint a good idea, Sounds like he was quick enough to avoid something bad, This time! To have a video of all that would be something to see... Again, im sorry i didn't catch this earlier! Maybe you didn't expect a reply but i never intentionally ignore anyone..
 
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