C 17 Assault Landing

[jsny302]

thats a very big plane stopping very fast.... amazing

[Chakmon212]

Very cool...

[willmotox1]

So Smooth

[JBDrummer23]

Just a, how the Air Force puts it, a maximum performance landing.

[DBigFish1988]

This is nowhere close to an "Assault landing".. ; An Assault landing involves a very steep dive just before landing

[topfuel29]

@DBigFish1988 I agree. She came in pretty level....

[bluesky747er]

Airplane is the most beautiful thing to look at, more beautiful than the most beautiful women, a big house and a fast car....

[frauspi]

That was NOT an assault landing. It was simply a very smooth normal landing.

[alsanchez1161]

NOT AN ASSAULT LANDING

[Stuckinthemuck1]

Looked like a rather shallow descent for and asslt landing.

[globemaster68]

POWER SLIDE THAT BAD BOY!! :)

[Jesteria78]

There should be a warning sign in the cockpit: "when going reverse you can't take off"

[iainbrookes]

BEEP BEEP BEEP This vehicle is reversing. BEEP BEEP BEEP!

[Pilotobe]

OOppss, mised that turn into taxiway, I'll just back a bit, no one will notice = )

[stnoll07]

The suction is so strong that is causes a drop in pressure, thus the condensation cloud and vortex.

We don't normally back up like that on the runway after an assault landing...this is a maneuver that is performed during AIRSHOW DEMOs to look cool.

[stnoll07]

ANSWER:

The "assault" landing is named that because it is flown to a short field (3500 feet long by 90 feet wide). It gets it's name from Army "Assault" operations but has been coined an ASSAULT landing for the Air Force as well. It has nothing to do with combat necessarily...we DO use these in combat but this landing can be flown to a short field ANYWHERE not just combat.

The small vortices you see is the suction from the engines pulling up moisture from the runway surface.

[SINSARMY]

c17 is the best flight Ive ever had for two reasons the take off was fun and it was my flight out of iraq to see my daughter be born

[stealthtecify]

@theiomalstrom 1) He backs up so he is ready to take off asap,

@ratty860997 2) I'm not sure if thats snow or a water dump to cool the front end of the engine ,obviously the engines are not designed for perlonged reverse thrust and so may need additional cooling,

By all means correct me if im wrong ive not flown these in reality but just my own educated guess

[stealthtecify]

1) He backs up so he is ready to take off asap,

2) I'm not sure if thats snow or a water dump to cool the front end of the engine ,obviously the engines are not designed for perlonged reverse thrust and so may need additional cooling,

By all means correct me if im wrong ive not flown these in reality but just my own educated guess

[Theriomalstrom]

Why is he backing up after landing?

[Orangebike666]

@Theriomalstrom I don't know very much and I am probably wrong but I will make a guess, maybe they use reverse thrust to slow down after landing. Then possibly the reason they are backing up during an assault landing is because they may need to practice landing fast in a hostile area and do not have time to taxi so they back up in order to take off again quickly?

[1979TexasLonghorns]

Maybe a really stupid question but what exactly is a assault landing ? I always thought there was simple short field landing and take offs and regualr landing and take off's Am I missing something ? or misunderstanding something ?

[SpywareHater]

@1979TexasLonghorns assault landing is when an aircraft lands in an hostile environment, by landing either diving or as fast as possible to avoid being shot down while landing.

[syntaxerror9]

Not an "assault landing".

I would call that a "landing".

[itisme235]

what is a assault landing?

[xevosinx]

@itisme235 when the plane dives down at high altitudes at a 45 degree angle to prevent assault from enemies, its quick and productive.

[Pacedawg]

RIP to our brother airmen who died today on a C17

[ginjaninja1988]

We saw a C-17 Globemaster from Elmendorf Air Base down here in New Zealand for the RNZAF's airshow at Whenupai Air Base. The show would have been a laugh without the National Air Guard C-17 and the RAAF F/A 18s

[munkfish101]

That was just 'A landing'

[ratty860997]

i like how it starts sucking the snow into the front of that 3rd engine at about 1:02

[jokerj4513]

@ratty860997 that is not snow that the engine is sucking in

[Anonymous1226]

@ratty860997 It's mot sucking in the snow. The c-17 does that whenever it uses reverse thrust and in a kind of Climates. Idiot

[alcosher]

@ratty860997 I'm not going to be a dick as some people have, i'm just going to say that when the engine is thrust to a relatively high level when the plane is as good as stationary you get a vortises ( like a little tornado ) which comes from the front of the engine to the ground as seen here. This is caused by the spinning turbines making the air also spin in a sort of cylendrical tube that connects to the ground. Hope this helped.

[ratty860997]

@alcosher

Yeah man thas cool i dont listen to the trollers anyway half the time they dont know what they on about anyway.

[xakepbamfsol]

@ratty860997 It's actually not sucking up snow, it's a vortex created by the reverse thrusters.

[ShelbyGT500TT]

@xakepbamfsol no its not otherwise u would see that on EVERY landing on a jet with reverse thrust.

[ShelbyGT500TT]

@xakepbamfsol ok if im wrong then how come YOUR comment is the one thats removed???? not mine????

[xakepbamfsol]

@ShelbyGT500TT Which comment are you referring to? Because all of my comments are still posted? Also, did you even look at Wikipedia? Even a quick Google image search will show you it's a vortex! Or maybe this YouTube video will also help you to realize you are wrong, just copy and paste this into the YouTube search "C-17 Globemaster Landing and Reverse Thrust Action"

[Mazapagon]

Some great planes and some great pilots...

[airs0fts0ldier]

very good