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

(Sorry "Mobil" should be Mobile ) The first three landings are my first during my initial interview check ride. The following landings are from a tape they give you after you take your interview check ride to enter the program. First is a T-38 at Beale flown by two U-2 pilots, gear up and the rest are various U-2 landings from past years.

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[xyzzy1000]

great vid! what's the song?

[RustysClips]

@xyzzy1000 I do the music.

[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.

[bcherbs]

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

[RustysClips]

@bcherbs Not sure what a I-Also is?

[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 ?

[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.

[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?

[justforever96]

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

[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.

[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

[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?