@DJDhananjayK That is a flight test cone. It is on a long reel and when needed is extended 1000 ft behind the airplane to measure wind and ambient pressures.
My dad used to fly 747-200s and he loved this video! Also said that the Boeing Vs Airbus argument is always between sad wannabes who won't likely fly either.
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@chaghar Pilots don't care. Arguing over Airbus vs Boeing is just stupid. My dad used to fly A330/340 and now is on the B744. Said they both do the same thing and the arguing is between people who will never really know.
@gnarkillkicksass" Pilots don't care. Arguing over Airbus vs Boeing is just stupid. My dad etc. etc.... both do the same thing and the arguing is between people who will never really know."
Absolutely the most truteful thing that could be said.
Those that say the most actually know the least & wouldn't have a clue on what technical basis they could make such claims.
Look at the pilot pump the rudder to maintain control after he's touched down around 2:30. Magnificent. Can you imagine having that much control over such a large object only with your feet? Coolness to the extreme.
@countrygentleman10 looks cool yea but youre supposed to have the plane aligned with the runway prior to touchdown, not fighting for your life after it lands.
@korrdavl The plane should have been pointed in the exact same direction of the runway if possible. I always make sure im aliged before touchdown, ive seen tires with massive flatspots from landing crooked.
@keeevan I find it laughable that you can criticise Boeing test pilots landing a (then) new type of widebody. The crosswind components being far higher than your 172's 13kts maximum (777-200's is 25kts), and the aircraft weighing over 180 times a Cessna 172 which you fly.
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.” - Benjamin Franklin
I realise the irony of that quote but I thought I'd put that in for good measure.
@korrdavl "pointed in the exact same direction of the runway if possible" I guess theres a quote somewhere about people not reading everything but ill leave that to you.
i'm sure Captain Sully would disagree on the remarks about airbus considering he flew them for almost twenty years and had one INCIDENT. WHich, by the way, resulted in the most spectacular water landing known to man.
We made a crosswind into Vienna last summer.. I remember there was a nose cam (transatlantic flight...) and I couldn't see the runway till the last second, at a very sharp angle! Had I not seen this video prior, I would have been VERY alarmed. Instead, I was awestruck at the pilot's finesse, and the plane's grace, and our conquering of the elements.
Full Respect to the pilots cuz i know it matters a lot the plane but to handle that kind of plane in a croswind is like a real test of are you readdy for ecverything that comes on your way ??
The crew that actually did all the test flights for the 777 we're United Airline pilots that got the whole Boeing project off the ground. Without them, who knows what would have been made.
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I do not know about the civlian airliners, but on the B-52 bomber, the landing gear can actually swivel to remain straight on course as the aircraft "crabs" so that the landing is safer. I suppose because of the size of the aircraft plus the bomb loads it carries.
Im a student pilot so i dont crab, and crosswinds are so hard. You have to constantly adjust your approach and then there is a gust when you are in your flare. It is so frustrating!!
@SP8Paintballer8 Crosswind landings are the art of flying, they are so much more fun than a normal sunny day no wind. Bring on the rain, windsheer and 23 gusting 25 I say!
The song is " Return to Innocence by Enigma. The crosswinds at this Brazilian Air Base are some of the worst. These pilots and crew are the best, otherwise known as Bad Asses.
The main landing gear does not turn on airliners. When an aircraft approaches the landing flare in line with the runway, but pointing towards the crosswind, is called a "crabbed condition". Just before touchdown the pilot uses "Aileron and Rudder" (wing controls) to turn the aircraft back to runway alignment just as the aircraft touches down. This MUST be done at a precise moment, If this is done too early, or too late, the aircraft lands in a drifting condition and heads off for the boonies.
I think the main landing gear of most airliners can be turned to line up with the runway while in a crab. The pilot realigns the plane with the gear upon touchdown.
With respect, no. The main landing gear are aligned with the fuselage as you see. The only plane that had such gear was the B-52. The gear on airliners has to be really tough to handle the side loads and extreme tortional forces that arise from landing in a crab and then instantly using opposite rudder to whip the nose around into alignment with the runway and just the right amount of upwind aileron to keep the wings level during rollout. Brakes, spoilers and thrust reversers help a lot too.
Very nice, landings. That's simple all there is to say......
The sheer bliss of rising into the winter twilight taking a 747 over the atlantic ocean when dinner is just being served....Taking a breathtaking glance over your shoulder to find the starry night right beside your wingtip, so close, so close as if you can reach out and grasp the moment of your life.
I have an overweight ultralight (Mitchell Wing) in my Laboratory sitting there... FAA, EAA & USUA screwed up and I ended up with an unflyable orphan. My dad flew it in the midle of nowhere, so he never registered it. Now I inheritted it and can't sell or register it because the grandfather clause expired.
I love to fly, and someday I will build an Experimental, but right now, flying isn't working out for me.
Keep it up, one day you'll get what you want....If you give up you'll never know what you could have acheived. I used to look out if my bedroom window when i was a kid looking at planes flying off into the sunset and I used to doubt I could ever do anything I wanted to do in life. But i worked and done it. LOL, look at the bright side, you've got a microlight, something which I wold love to have but haven't got....
darn. that first landing is NOT Groom Lake ( lololol ) . I take your word re Iceland. I am from NZ. You will know what the similarity is. There is some nice footage of NZWN on a Bad Day done to some nice portuguese music . Its a " best of " , so there is a lot of other footage too.
Great Video of course. Watched it on many occasions. But in a different vein, does anyone, anywhere know what that music/group is? They are just as outstanding as the aileron and rudder action.
also.....re ICELAND......ummm......where ? Dont recall any desert / dust storms in Rejkavik ( only strip that can take a heavy ). Boeing are NOT in the habit of flying training crews ( and even test pilots ) where there is no requirement. I can only speak for the 737 / 757 / 767 series however.
I may be wrong, but why fly to Iceland in search of xwind ???
Agree re Team Effort . UFO's ??? I will not even bother explaining THAT one to you . ALL comm pilots are trained in severe / extreme xwind landing proceedure. In New Zealand we get more than our share of xwind / turb / sheer. It takes a VERY experianced comm to improve on autoland. However, autoland requires facility that is only found at cat 1 installations. These xwind landings were run from the front seats.
Well spotted those who can see an amazing undercarriage system
Let's not just give all credits to the pilots. I think the real heroes here are the thousands of engineers and workers who designed and built these planes!
@DrRClavan Fuck you sad fag. Tupolev is less safer than Airbus. For example: Tupolev 154 has over 60 accidents in 40 years and the Airbus A320 family has only 13 accidents in 22 years. So learn get a new hobby or do some research you ignorant fag. So l2becorrect Airbus is way much safer than a Tupolev.
@Toilu Airbus is well known to make aircraft designed by engineers whereas eg Boeing or Tupolev make aircraft co-designed by actual pilots. Airbus is able to survive because even a child can fly their planes so even Asian airlines are able to fly. Airbus is one hell of a software mess though. Their computers are driven by unreliable, untested and unsafe software. And if anything goes wrong forget about a manual override. AIRBUS = RUSSIAN ROULETTE! I'd rather fly Tupolev.
@DrRClavan Well anyone feels safer if they fly an Airbus than a Tupolev because it's Russian and everyone expects it to crash. It's more human like tho if the pilot has to actually do something, in an Airbus everything is modern and automated. And where do you know their computers are untested, unrealiable and unsafe?
@DrRClavan i am friends with a captain of the ERJ-190, and although he says 'you get what you paid for...' sort of, private jet avionics instead of rockwell landing systems (used by both boeing and airbus), there has only been a single hull loss incident which has been attributed unofficially as a CFIT (controlled flight into terrain) and not necessarily the aircraft's fault. Hopefully you are wrong about embraer sucking, as they are only in their airliner infancy at the moment.
@korrdavl I was just kidding about Embraer, friend of mine is captain on one (don't know which type) and likes them a lot so they must be ok. But believe be on Airbus, their planes are so packed with software (and thus with bugs, that's inevitable) they're really unsafe to fly. Please google for "Les Hatton and Airbus".
Looks like the standard Boeing test facility at Groom Lake ( ? ) to me . Also note that these aircraft are not , strictly speaking in full pax config re all up weight ! ( close tho mebbe )
And you are DAMNED right about the pilots and engineers.....these guys are not HALF GOOD HUH ?
This is not particularly difficult although it looks impressive.
The capability to deploy spoilers and kill lift is the secret here.
Watch closely and you'll see them out just as soon as the A/C touches down crabbed. The nosewheel is held off and the crab is taken out with rudder, allowing the nosewheel to touch down with the A/C roughly straight with the runway.
Now land a 185 on wheels in the same conditions and you have my lasting respect and admiration. This just costs rubber.
You are correct, the a/c needs positive lift to maintain control right down to the ground, but needs to kill all lift & add much drag once down, it still takes much more than I can provide to make the call & treat a 200 ton a/c like a sports car & pivot it around a highly stressed landing leg.
The responsibility to the passengers & the company can be almost overwhelming in gusting conditions.
Sometimes these blokes earn a whole years pay in a couple of minutes.
Well, by the time you are left or right seat on equipment like this, you should not be plagued by self doubt about whether you can pull off something along these lines. Some of the implausible shit they dream up in the sim, yes, but not this.
And the L/G is nowhere near limits here. It is capable of surviving a landing that would hospitalize everyone on board with back injury and the A/C would be a write off. Watch the Lufthansa LH44 landing for a good example of how to cock this up thoroughly.
my thing is though, how the hell do you know where your back gear is in relation to the runway when you're sideways? Also, what's the deal with the wheels looking diagonal?
The main gear are angled vertically to allow only one set of wheels to touch first. Usually the back 2 but the 767 has the front 2 touch first. No idea why the diff.
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they look diagonal because you can see them from a side view, and from the side, the wheels are pointing down at the back and up at the front, its just an optical illusion
And ujinov, if you were a pilot you should know that these landings are done by test pilots who do this for a living. And I don't see why they need "cudos" as it looks more dramatic then it really is. For the pilots it's just another day at the office.
i was in one of these landing once(as a passenger, not a pilot); lanzarote airport, airplane landed a good 30 degrees sideways. i totally shitted myself LOL
It looks spectacular, but this is part of a pilots training. Although these landings are on the extreme side, it's still something any Boeing/Airbus etc. pilot is capable of doing.
while it is part of out training. it's not something you'd want to do... we prepare for this eventuality but high crosswinds especially during landings are very dangerous and pilots feel like crapping themselves lol
are the wing landing gear turned with the plane? I thought they were stationary. And for some reason this music goes perfectly with the video....eerry!
Did they have to modify the seats or the cockpit to accommodate the giant cojones of the pilots?
tward93 4 months ago 2
i would like to see airlines compete in air drifting lol wanna know whos top dog!
devilem69 4 months ago
im tired of all these motherfucking crosswinds on this motherfucking plane!
85cc144 4 months ago
@1:26...........
Piolt to plane : Hey.....look there's a runway and we have to land....
Plane to pilot : Shutup....Am the next model super model....
obaidpices 4 months ago
Sullenberger could land that with 1 wheel
DanishArmy 5 months ago
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LynseyGregory65 5 months ago
what's the song called? btw great vid and landings xD
simonilkinson13 6 months ago
@simonilkinson13 Return to innocence by Enigma
nostra2 6 months ago
These tests were made at the former Glascow Airforce Base in Montana
fixitbubba 7 months ago
0:36 what the hell is hanging on the tail of that plane??
DJDhananjayK 7 months ago
@DJDhananjayK That is a flight test cone. It is on a long reel and when needed is extended 1000 ft behind the airplane to measure wind and ambient pressures.
fixitbubba 7 months ago
Moses Lake Washington, not Brazil.
quantumleap7219 7 months ago
Those landings weren't in Brazil. Edwards AFB, Roswell NM and Great Falls, MT
paco291 7 months ago
muito muito muito bom mesmo. :D
bill123123100 7 months ago
My dad used to fly 747-200s and he loved this video! Also said that the Boeing Vs Airbus argument is always between sad wannabes who won't likely fly either.
gnarkillkicksass 7 months ago
the 777 ones are crazy
9sorem9 8 months ago
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erickdircks 8 months ago
airbus sucks!
rallycar747 9 months ago
I love how the 777s face looks frowned.
nevmx 9 months ago
Somehow this vid got erased from my mobile devices, happy to see it's here. :)
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applesweeter 9 months ago
These landings are PRO!!!! And with Boeing test pilots, they should be ;)
rotorcraft68 9 months ago
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Macmaster2k6 9 months ago
como se llama la cancion
gepiita12 10 months ago
@gepiita12 Return to innocence - Enigma
Triple777ER 10 months ago
@gepiita12 return to innocence - Enigma
9sorem9 8 months ago
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darknite24 10 months ago 8
nice x-wind landings
chrisklein21 10 months ago
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BibiaaArdellaj812 10 months ago
No computer can make as perfect landings as these
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chaghar 1 year ago
@chaghar Pilots don't care. Arguing over Airbus vs Boeing is just stupid. My dad used to fly A330/340 and now is on the B744. Said they both do the same thing and the arguing is between people who will never really know.
gnarkillkicksass 1 year ago 2
Exactly right!
I'm tired of all the AvsB arguments!!
@gnarkillkicksass
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@gnarkillkicksass" Pilots don't care. Arguing over Airbus vs Boeing is just stupid. My dad etc. etc.... both do the same thing and the arguing is between people who will never really know."
Absolutely the most truteful thing that could be said.
Those that say the most actually know the least & wouldn't have a clue on what technical basis they could make such claims.
KB10GL 10 months ago
Look at the pilot pump the rudder to maintain control after he's touched down around 2:30. Magnificent. Can you imagine having that much control over such a large object only with your feet? Coolness to the extreme.
countrygentleman10 1 year ago 2
@countrygentleman10 looks cool yea but youre supposed to have the plane aligned with the runway prior to touchdown, not fighting for your life after it lands.
keeevan 1 year ago
@keeevan what exactly do you mean? are you saying it's cool but should have been better executed (the landing)?
korrdavl 1 year ago
@korrdavl The plane should have been pointed in the exact same direction of the runway if possible. I always make sure im aliged before touchdown, ive seen tires with massive flatspots from landing crooked.
keeevan 1 year ago
@keeevan I find it laughable that you can criticise Boeing test pilots landing a (then) new type of widebody. The crosswind components being far higher than your 172's 13kts maximum (777-200's is 25kts), and the aircraft weighing over 180 times a Cessna 172 which you fly.
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.” - Benjamin Franklin
I realise the irony of that quote but I thought I'd put that in for good measure.
korrdavl 1 year ago
@korrdavl "pointed in the exact same direction of the runway if possible" I guess theres a quote somewhere about people not reading everything but ill leave that to you.
keeevan 1 year ago
@keeevan They were testing the maximum cross wind component on the aircraft, as they always do on aircraft so they know the limits.
SuperWinemaker 11 months ago
@SuperWinemaker do all pilots flying the plane do this test or is it only the plane that goes through the testing.
keeevan 11 months ago
Song is called: Return to innocence - Enigma
vivekradya 1 year ago
@vivekradya Thank you :)
simon1430 1 year ago
it's like...landing a very heavy aircraft on very heavy crosswind
lealowo 1 year ago
What's the title of this song???
Jonatinho96 1 year ago
It is like drifting with 200 passengers in your car.
rainerfilm 1 year ago
WATCH OUT ! It is coming straight towards you!
rainerfilm 1 year ago
i'm sure Captain Sully would disagree on the remarks about airbus considering he flew them for almost twenty years and had one INCIDENT. WHich, by the way, resulted in the most spectacular water landing known to man.
jwigiMT 1 year ago
Who planned this airport?
sizenevermatters 1 year ago
@sizenevermatters That airport was planned by some engineering students who bribed their instructor to give them an A.
joshig1983 1 year ago
@joshig1983 lol...Maybe just a summer school homework that they designed near the pool...Nice comment!
sizenevermatters 1 year ago
Great Emotial Song Perfect For This Vid . Great 5 *
V8xgaming 1 year ago
We made a crosswind into Vienna last summer.. I remember there was a nose cam (transatlantic flight...) and I couldn't see the runway till the last second, at a very sharp angle! Had I not seen this video prior, I would have been VERY alarmed. Instead, I was awestruck at the pilot's finesse, and the plane's grace, and our conquering of the elements.
nelson3300 1 year ago 11
@nelson3300 you were lucky not to crash you mean lol
doh1959 1 year ago
@nelson3300 - It's not about "conquering" the elements. It's about working with them.
BayviewFinch 7 months ago
1:42 WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DDbRowN67 1 year ago
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joaohen 1 year ago
Howa tha
Qaboos777 1 year ago
Full Respect to the pilots cuz i know it matters a lot the plane but to handle that kind of plane in a croswind is like a real test of are you readdy for ecverything that comes on your way ??
kolalokaaff 1 year ago
The crew that actually did all the test flights for the 777 we're United Airline pilots that got the whole Boeing project off the ground. Without them, who knows what would have been made.
bashyourxtremein 1 year ago
The 777 crew were actually part of United Airlines that got the Boeing project off the ground. They did all the test flights for it
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lbpshananigins 1 year ago
so graceful
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nikthepilot 1 year ago
@nikthepilot Enigma: Return to innocence.
choda42 1 year ago
Amazing to think this bird still flies for cathay...
TheLn14 1 year ago
Most nooby pilot would be someone who landed with a crosswind, didn't change direction, then put the front wheel down then tried to turn.
yoyogfx1 1 year ago
2:11 is insane :\
WackyWadslow 1 year ago
I do not know about the civlian airliners, but on the B-52 bomber, the landing gear can actually swivel to remain straight on course as the aircraft "crabs" so that the landing is safer. I suppose because of the size of the aircraft plus the bomb loads it carries.
bullcurr 1 year ago
whats the song?
hepatheheathen 1 year ago
@hepatheheathen "Return to Innocence" by Enigma
thomasksc20000 1 year ago
Im a student pilot so i dont crab, and crosswinds are so hard. You have to constantly adjust your approach and then there is a gust when you are in your flare. It is so frustrating!!
SP8Paintballer8 1 year ago
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tcx23f 1 year ago
@SP8Paintballer8 Crosswind landings are the art of flying, they are so much more fun than a normal sunny day no wind. Bring on the rain, windsheer and 23 gusting 25 I say!
tcx23f 1 year ago
The song is " Return to Innocence by Enigma. The crosswinds at this Brazilian Air Base are some of the worst. These pilots and crew are the best, otherwise known as Bad Asses.
holywoodbulldog117 1 year ago
The main landing gear does not turn on airliners. When an aircraft approaches the landing flare in line with the runway, but pointing towards the crosswind, is called a "crabbed condition". Just before touchdown the pilot uses "Aileron and Rudder" (wing controls) to turn the aircraft back to runway alignment just as the aircraft touches down. This MUST be done at a precise moment, If this is done too early, or too late, the aircraft lands in a drifting condition and heads off for the boonies.
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holywoodbulldog117 1 year ago
Song please ? (;
08CJ09 1 year ago
landing ..excellence..!!!
mpioq 1 year ago
Beautiful.
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vozhevaatozal 2 years ago
I still want to live moments like those!
jkknn 2 years ago
The perfect song for this video. BTW, Tunak11, the song is "Return To Innocence" by Enigma.
cj20032005 2 years ago
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conoramoia 2 years ago
nice song what song?
Tunak11 2 years ago
excelent
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jzad73 1 year ago
on one of the landing attempts the landing gear looks crooked/ angled?
pwain 2 years ago
@pwain
I think the main landing gear of most airliners can be turned to line up with the runway while in a crab. The pilot realigns the plane with the gear upon touchdown.
alteal 2 years ago
With respect, no. The main landing gear are aligned with the fuselage as you see. The only plane that had such gear was the B-52. The gear on airliners has to be really tough to handle the side loads and extreme tortional forces that arise from landing in a crab and then instantly using opposite rudder to whip the nose around into alignment with the runway and just the right amount of upwind aileron to keep the wings level during rollout. Brakes, spoilers and thrust reversers help a lot too.
acbulgin2 1 year ago 2
ROFLMAO. . . depends!! Too funny.
I'd just have toilet installed for a seat!!
Fantastic vids!!
ski2exs 2 years ago
This has a name:
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Juvenalf 2 years ago 2
The song is "Return to Innocence" by Enigma
internexus1 2 years ago
nice song and video.What is the title?
mohdredza1 2 years ago
Very nice, landings. That's simple all there is to say......
The sheer bliss of rising into the winter twilight taking a 747 over the atlantic ocean when dinner is just being served....Taking a breathtaking glance over your shoulder to find the starry night right beside your wingtip, so close, so close as if you can reach out and grasp the moment of your life.
airlinecaptain 2 years ago
so true... quite poetic too
gozita73 2 years ago
Being a pilot and flying is a way of life, an inspiration, an inspiration which cannot be recreated in anything else you do.
Many greetings and merry xmas!
airlinecaptain 2 years ago
@airlinecaptain
Flying used to be fun.
KanzlerM 2 years ago
"Used to be"? It still is, and will continue to be till the end.
Why isn't it fun anymore for you?
airlinecaptain 2 years ago
@airlinecaptain
All the B.S. feelgood "security" measures.
I used to be able to walk onto a plane in about 15 minutes, now I have to get there an hour early, take my shoes off...
KanzlerM 2 years ago
I suppose, but still, flying is flying....
airlinecaptain 2 years ago
I have an overweight ultralight (Mitchell Wing) in my Laboratory sitting there... FAA, EAA & USUA screwed up and I ended up with an unflyable orphan. My dad flew it in the midle of nowhere, so he never registered it. Now I inheritted it and can't sell or register it because the grandfather clause expired.
I love to fly, and someday I will build an Experimental, but right now, flying isn't working out for me.
KanzlerM 2 years ago
Keep it up, one day you'll get what you want....If you give up you'll never know what you could have acheived. I used to look out if my bedroom window when i was a kid looking at planes flying off into the sunset and I used to doubt I could ever do anything I wanted to do in life. But i worked and done it. LOL, look at the bright side, you've got a microlight, something which I wold love to have but haven't got....
airlinecaptain 2 years ago
@airlinecaptain
I wish I'd thounght that way when I was 18 yrs old.
I would have gone to college and become a Naval Aviator.
I had the brains, reflexes and eyesight to succeed, but no ambition.
At age 28 I finally went to school, and at 35 got my Aerospace Engineering degree..
I worked MD80/90, MD-11, MD95 (717), International Space Station, and I have been a designer on F-22 since 2001.
So I am living proof of what you say, but my late start put some things into the "what could have been".
KanzlerM 2 years ago
It's better late than never though. If you didn't try it couldn't have all happened. Oh well, lets enjoy flying though.
airlinecaptain 2 years ago
@airlinecaptain
I got some hours Hang Gliding yaers ago, and fly with friends any chance I get - and will eventually get my private pilot license.
KanzlerM 2 years ago
darn. that first landing is NOT Groom Lake ( lololol ) . I take your word re Iceland. I am from NZ. You will know what the similarity is. There is some nice footage of NZWN on a Bad Day done to some nice portuguese music . Its a " best of " , so there is a lot of other footage too.
tasman763 2 years ago
Great Video of course. Watched it on many occasions. But in a different vein, does anyone, anywhere know what that music/group is? They are just as outstanding as the aileron and rudder action.
Thanks in advance if you can tell me.
mcguipe 2 years ago
The song is called Return to Innocence by Enigma, they have a couple other cool songs as well
NCvla08 2 years ago
also.....re ICELAND......ummm......where ? Dont recall any desert / dust storms in Rejkavik ( only strip that can take a heavy ). Boeing are NOT in the habit of flying training crews ( and even test pilots ) where there is no requirement. I can only speak for the 737 / 757 / 767 series however.
I may be wrong, but why fly to Iceland in search of xwind ???
tasman763 2 years ago
Agree re Team Effort . UFO's ??? I will not even bother explaining THAT one to you . ALL comm pilots are trained in severe / extreme xwind landing proceedure. In New Zealand we get more than our share of xwind / turb / sheer. It takes a VERY experianced comm to improve on autoland. However, autoland requires facility that is only found at cat 1 installations. These xwind landings were run from the front seats.
Well spotted those who can see an amazing undercarriage system
tasman763 2 years ago
Let's not just give all credits to the pilots. I think the real heroes here are the thousands of engineers and workers who designed and built these planes!
avcomth 2 years ago 48
@avcomth The Boeing engineers yes, not the Airbus ones. Airbus makes crappy unsafe planes. I'd rather fly a Tupolev than Airbus.
DrRClavan 1 year ago
@DrRClavan Fuck you sad fag. Tupolev is less safer than Airbus. For example: Tupolev 154 has over 60 accidents in 40 years and the Airbus A320 family has only 13 accidents in 22 years. So learn get a new hobby or do some research you ignorant fag. So l2becorrect Airbus is way much safer than a Tupolev.
Toilu 1 year ago
@Toilu Airbus is well known to make aircraft designed by engineers whereas eg Boeing or Tupolev make aircraft co-designed by actual pilots. Airbus is able to survive because even a child can fly their planes so even Asian airlines are able to fly. Airbus is one hell of a software mess though. Their computers are driven by unreliable, untested and unsafe software. And if anything goes wrong forget about a manual override. AIRBUS = RUSSIAN ROULETTE! I'd rather fly Tupolev.
DrRClavan 1 year ago
@DrRClavan Well anyone feels safer if they fly an Airbus than a Tupolev because it's Russian and everyone expects it to crash. It's more human like tho if the pilot has to actually do something, in an Airbus everything is modern and automated. And where do you know their computers are untested, unrealiable and unsafe?
Toilu 1 year ago
@Toilu Do a google on "Les Hatton" and "Airbus". Remember: AIRBUS = RUSSIAN ROULETTE !!!
DrRClavan 1 year ago
@avcomth NOT the engineers at Airbus, they suck!
DrRClavan 1 year ago
@DrRClavan
yeah id say you arent a real doctor, sir, with a comment like that
korrdavl 1 year ago
@korrdavl And Embraer suck too.
DrRClavan 1 year ago
@DrRClavan i am friends with a captain of the ERJ-190, and although he says 'you get what you paid for...' sort of, private jet avionics instead of rockwell landing systems (used by both boeing and airbus), there has only been a single hull loss incident which has been attributed unofficially as a CFIT (controlled flight into terrain) and not necessarily the aircraft's fault. Hopefully you are wrong about embraer sucking, as they are only in their airliner infancy at the moment.
korrdavl 1 year ago
@korrdavl I was just kidding about Embraer, friend of mine is captain on one (don't know which type) and likes them a lot so they must be ok. But believe be on Airbus, their planes are so packed with software (and thus with bugs, that's inevitable) they're really unsafe to fly. Please google for "Les Hatton and Airbus".
DrRClavan 1 year ago
@avcomth nah it's the pilots
haha
joshuaspolar 1 year ago
@avcomth ofcourse, but also remember the pilots are the ones who have to land the plane safe with all those people in it to :)
Itsmissbishforu 1 year ago
the drum beat in this song copies the John Bonham drumbeat of "When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin
Bthepilot 2 years ago
oooohhh...uuummmm...implausible shit in the sim ? ummm.......ur not a comm pilot , are you sunshine ? ( let alone a checkpilot ? )
lol, thats ok , u just keep on thinkin whatever you like to thunk.
tasman763 2 years ago
Looks like the standard Boeing test facility at Groom Lake ( ? ) to me . Also note that these aircraft are not , strictly speaking in full pax config re all up weight ! ( close tho mebbe )
And you are DAMNED right about the pilots and engineers.....these guys are not HALF GOOD HUH ?
2 months pay in 5 minutes ? Amen !
tasman763 2 years ago
THERE ARE FUCKING UFOS IN GROOM LAKE
TheMarksmenCat 2 years ago
1:59 is just ridiculous looking. Very impressive landings. :-D
CHRISGT34 2 years ago
Anyone know which landing strip is this?
buttsrus 2 years ago
Edwards AFB,
not Brazil as claimed
Gonardia2nd 2 years ago
Thats what I thought. Brazil just didn't seem right. Thanks for the reply!
buttsrus 2 years ago
This is not particularly difficult although it looks impressive.
The capability to deploy spoilers and kill lift is the secret here.
Watch closely and you'll see them out just as soon as the A/C touches down crabbed. The nosewheel is held off and the crab is taken out with rudder, allowing the nosewheel to touch down with the A/C roughly straight with the runway.
Now land a 185 on wheels in the same conditions and you have my lasting respect and admiration. This just costs rubber.
schlusselmensch 2 years ago
You are correct, the a/c needs positive lift to maintain control right down to the ground, but needs to kill all lift & add much drag once down, it still takes much more than I can provide to make the call & treat a 200 ton a/c like a sports car & pivot it around a highly stressed landing leg.
The responsibility to the passengers & the company can be almost overwhelming in gusting conditions.
Sometimes these blokes earn a whole years pay in a couple of minutes.
Great stuff
KB10GL 2 years ago
Well, by the time you are left or right seat on equipment like this, you should not be plagued by self doubt about whether you can pull off something along these lines. Some of the implausible shit they dream up in the sim, yes, but not this.
And the L/G is nowhere near limits here. It is capable of surviving a landing that would hospitalize everyone on board with back injury and the A/C would be a write off. Watch the Lufthansa LH44 landing for a good example of how to cock this up thoroughly.
schlusselmensch 2 years ago
my thing is though, how the hell do you know where your back gear is in relation to the runway when you're sideways? Also, what's the deal with the wheels looking diagonal?
wompasdub 2 years ago
@wompasdub
You know from practice.
The main gear are angled vertically to allow only one set of wheels to touch first. Usually the back 2 but the 767 has the front 2 touch first. No idea why the diff.
airbpmd80 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
they look diagonal because you can see them from a side view, and from the side, the wheels are pointing down at the back and up at the front, its just an optical illusion
TheEternalUniverse 1 year ago
Yeah... not sure what you're talking about the whole plane is diagonal. lol It's no optical illusion
wompasdub 1 year ago
i was replying to a guy who said it like that, so i replied in the same way so he understood me.
TheEternalUniverse 1 year ago
if its not an optical illusion, then why is everyone thinking the wheels can turn?
TheEternalUniverse 1 year ago
retard
Jrink30 1 year ago
Awesome landings you guys need to check out the A80 crosswind landing test... its just amazing.
musashikyo 2 years ago
hats off to any pilot who can land in those conditions
clearedapproach77 2 years ago
very talented pilots
drewwords 2 years ago 2
chaotic are you even a pilot? cause it's not easy landing Xwind. kudos to these pilots
ujinov 2 years ago
And ujinov, if you were a pilot you should know that these landings are done by test pilots who do this for a living. And I don't see why they need "cudos" as it looks more dramatic then it really is. For the pilots it's just another day at the office.
speters987 2 years ago
song is what name?
michael123124 2 years ago
Enigma: return to innocence
mm1979dk 2 years ago
NEEDS MORE RUDDER!!!!!
chaoticsorrow212 2 years ago
what is the name of the song? lol
ewalsh12 2 years ago
This just shows why Boeing are so amazing.
TheLn14 2 years ago
i was in one of these landing once(as a passenger, not a pilot); lanzarote airport, airplane landed a good 30 degrees sideways. i totally shitted myself LOL
dig6dog 2 years ago
damn good freakin pilots!!!
superfestiva 2 years ago
It looks spectacular, but this is part of a pilots training. Although these landings are on the extreme side, it's still something any Boeing/Airbus etc. pilot is capable of doing.
speters987 2 years ago
while it is part of out training. it's not something you'd want to do... we prepare for this eventuality but high crosswinds especially during landings are very dangerous and pilots feel like crapping themselves lol
ujinov 2 years ago
whats the music
TheLn14 2 years ago
Return to innocence - enigma
armg83 2 years ago
ENIGMA, RETURN TO INNOCENCE
michaelhenriquesrj 2 years ago
Where is this by the way?
TheLn14 2 years ago
This video is fucking immense. The 777 is my favourite airliner. Pure sex
TheLn14 2 years ago
ses risquer se il font la
xd
MrCARABIN 2 years ago
Rally ho!!
pplschmpion 2 years ago
are the wing landing gear turned with the plane? I thought they were stationary. And for some reason this music goes perfectly with the video....eerry!
jreid8231 2 years ago
Boeing doesn't go to Brazil for testing.
The 777s were at Edwards AFB and Roswell, NM; the 747SP was at Great Falls, MT.
Crosswind landings, for score, typically take place in Keflavik, Iceland. Check out the A380 x-wind video.
To be fair to Sc-Airbus, they have to demonstrate the same FARs as Boeing.
As far as x-wind limits go... there isn't a calculated limit... it's max "demonstrated" x-wind.
paco291 2 years ago 4