U-2 Landings, First Landing in U-2 and crash landings

[hgrgic]

Now this is what I call skill!

[Lear23Driver]

Rusty,

How does it handle on final ? Is it sluggish ? Also, what about in crosswind ? Hard to handle ?

[UKVoodooUK]

Nice landing with the main gear missing on the TR-1A...Gently done to say how much the pitch down would have been on touch down from tailwheel

[xyzzy1000]

great vid! what's the song?

[RustysClips]

@xyzzy1000 I do the music.

[justforever96]

Seems strange that the plane would slew to the right after touching to left wingtip. You'd think it would be the other way, the drag from the wing would pull the plane to left. Or is it that the plane started to turn to the right, and so it rolled to the left and touched its wingtip? And how did both pogos get stuck? Aren't they just stuck in holes, and held by the weight of the wing? I wouldn't have expected him to crash. Is it that much harder to land with them on?

[vontornm]

@justforever96 To answer your question about both pogo's being stuck, That aircraft is a U-2CT it was one of the oldest we had at Beale AFB, pilots could fly that for training and induction of new canidates we ( Crew Chiefs) would double pin the pogo it was safty wired in.

[justforever96]

@vontornm I don't understand; isn't having the pogos stay in their sockets a bad thing? Are the pins you are talking about like control locks that have to be removed before flight, and they double pinned them and someone forgot to remove one of the pins? Is that what you're saying?

[vontornm]

@justforever96 Well to answer this is a bit hard to do, yes its a bad thing for the pogo's to be left in but when they were double pinned its like having training wheels on a bike for a new person just learning to ride it. the lock pins were left in and not removed it is a grasshopper pin that was secured with safety wire so the pogo would not come out. A hung pogo is when the pins were pulled and the pogo lock didn't release that is a very bad thing.

[gamestunts]

@RustysClips thanks for sharing your video and the mishaps.

The U2 crash at 3:33 . Is it not possible to recover the stability once one of the wings touches the ground? The turn to the right just seemed to get worse and worse until it dug in.

[RustysClips]

@gamestunts I have a feeling there might have been a linkage failure. But it was a trainer model and things happen. Also the rear wheel is very small, not much to steer with and once you start in one direction…the plane tends to have a mind of its own.

[gamestunts]

@RustysClips Thanks for the reply :) I was wondering what steered the plane, so good info thank you :)

[TwinsPeru]

AMAZING!

[modelleg]

What's he mean by: "pretty good for a bus guy..." Hear right?

[RustysClips]

@modelleg He said "Buff Guy". He was giving me a hard time about fly B-52's at one point. But flying the B-52 was a great time!

[bcherbs]

Great vid but is the U2 derived from the I-Also?

[RustysClips]

@bcherbs Not sure what a I-Also is?

[justforever96]

@RustysClips LOL, I think that was a dumb joke. "You Too" = "I Also". It took me a minute to figure it out too.

[Radu810]

Amazing clip!

[DS8587]

those last two landings were GREAT!

[megashegem]

Looked like it was every man for himself on that T-38 gear up landing...LOL...Liked the vid. thanks for sharing this.

[RustysClips]

Funny what cut and paste will do for you on a late night. Sorry about that. Maybe I was thinking of Mobil gas...who knows?

[toogoodbw]

Oh now that I watch the rest of the clip I see the emergancy crews were already in place.

[toogoodbw]

there is no way 4:30 was an accident. It had to have been a malfunction. Or the most epic CRM breakdown.

[spins321]

Ah cool, you flew Buffs before? Do you find some of that ground effect to be similar between the two aircraft on landing? Seems she wants to float quite a bit.

[b1cc2]

I'm no U-2 pilot, but I can spell 'mobile' all day long.