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Top Guns RAAF F-111 Belly Landing
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If you're into special airplanes
even a little, here is a video I’m sure you’ll enjoy if you haven't seen it.
These guys do a remarkable job getting their aircraft back on the ground with a
minimal amount of damage. It could have very easily gone the other way. Also,
notice early in the video there is a sequence showing a F-111 dumping fuel with
the afterburners on lighting up the night sky. Something a little unique to the
F-111.
The Australians flew the F-111 a
lot longer than our Air Force. The airplane was originally designed to land on
a carrier deck so the gear structure is very strong. Even landing on a long
runway you just maintain 10 degrees angle of attack until the runway stops your
descent. Because this is the way the airplane was designed to be landed it felt
just fine inside the airplane, but for an observer outside the aircraft it
looked like you forgot to flare and really clobbered the landing. I don't know
if metal fatigue was a factor in this accident but they are fortunate the wheel
fell off upon liftoff and not while accelerating down the runway in full
afterburner. Using the tail hook to catch the arresting cable was a great idea,
as you will see. Arresting wires on runways are not like the ones on the flight
deck of a carrier. They provide less resistance and let you decelerate over
about a 900 ft. range, something you wouldn't have room to do on a carrier.
Foto: RAAF
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