Spill your coffee, or tea what have you

[nearmiss]

This will make you spill your coffee, or tea what-have-you.

Darned awesome video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIyYK9oz9Go

lol I love the fact that the narrator delivers the dump n burn like some sort of special feature

[nearmiss]

The fun part to me was the matter of factness of the commanding officer in his closing remarks.

All in a days work lads... LOL

I still don't get why the used the arrestor hook, if anything it helped slamming the plane on the tarmac more than let it gently glide and stop and well done to the guy who ran away without helping his colleague..

[recoilfx]

Perhaps they didn't want it to slide so much that the fuel catches on fire.

naaaah, as any good pilot they don't have the faintest idea of what they're talking about... the times of the highly flammable JP-4 are long gone, JP-8 is not like piston engines avgas, it has a flash point of 46 °C (or 100 °F), it's pretty much like diesel, it takes some good effort to light up. The most intelligent approach would have been to flood the runway with fire retardant and let the big bird sit on it as gently as possible: as soon as it's down on its own weight, the thing will stop quite quickly anyway,then you can release the arrestor hook if need be, cos the arrestor cables are at the extremities of the runway.. I just found it a pretty awkward emergency landing procedure, but if the Ozs are happy with it..

[Sven]

Originally Posted by recoilfx

Perhaps they didn't want it to slide so much that the fuel catches on fire.

or slide off the runway, anyway amazing work from the pilot.

[JG53Frankyboy]

was this F-111 was made flyable again by the RAAF ?

pitty the F-111 is nowadays out of service

EDIT: found it, it never flew again->
"The other aircraft was retired in 2006 after suffering damage from landing on its belly after one of its main wheels separated during take off; although the aircraft was repairable it was judged not worthwhile doing so due to the impending retirement of the entire F-111 fleet"

Originally Posted by Sven

or slide off the runway, anyway amazing work from the pilot.

hardly, those things are heavy,coming down at full flap means they're touching down at 130-140kts IAS, you will soon stop in half runway. The use of arrestor hooks is more understandable in case of a high speed landing (i.e. hydraulic failure and no flaps/airbrakes)when u come down at 300kts and u need to slow the thing down properly and above all to keep it aligned with the runway. It was a redundant manouvre, and if anything they risked to crack the fuselage open with such a hard slam on the runway other than injure the crew. But hey, that's the fun of it, as we say:"any landing you can walk away from is a good one" and judging from how fast they ran out of the thing, that must have been a damn good one indeed

[engarde]

Originally Posted by nearmiss

This will make you spill your coffee, or tea what-have-you.

Darned awesome video...

without giving away too much, i remember that day very well, i learned over the radio that a colleague of mine had been required to attend the incident in an official capacity.

i was SO jealous i didnt get to see what happened close up.