--- Martin Spott wrote: > Steve Hosgood wrote: > > Martin Spott wrote: > > > >You know, some people do it the other way round. Just a reminder, I > > >guess this strip has already been mentioned elsewhere: > > > > > > http://foxtrot.mgras.net/bitmap/Wasserlandung_mit_Salto.mpeg > > > Just for interest - I know nothing much about seaplanes. What did the > > pilot do wrong? > > > > I'm guessing that the wheels should have been retracted really high > (or > > inside the floats) and out of the way. Is that it? > > Correct, the drag of these small wheels is enormous when they get into > water at this speed, > > Martin.
I'd always read how very bad it is to do a gear-down landing on water and the likelihood of flipping over the nose, but to see a video of it is something else... Ironically, a wheels-up landing on land in an amphibian (or on straight floats) is much less of an issue. Apparently when some Canadians take their float-planes out for the winter they just land on grass by the side of a runway on their floats. Take-off involved putting the plane on a truck and driving down the runway until rotation speed is reached - there's a video of it somewhere... -Stuart Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
