I was not aware the B52 has swiveling landing gear, I had to look it up. There are some videos of them landing in crosswinds.
Introduced in 1955 and still an impressive machine. Both the A380 and the B52 should be too big to do stuff like that. I guess the A380 is more impressive because that was apparently a commercial flight with passengers on board. -----Original Message----- From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Robert Andrews Sent: Monday, February 17, 2020 6:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT - Airbus 380 landing in Storm Dennis crosswind When you wish your airliner had B-52 landing gear. Although I suspect that angle exceeded the capabilities of even a B-52 for xwind. That was probably _Way_ outside the demonstrated capability in the aircraft manual. On 02/17/2020 04:02 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > OK this is totally off topic, but watch this crazy landing at Heathrow: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I473iDkCIYE&feature=youtu.be > > "If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use > the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing." > > - Chuck Yeager > > > -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
