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| #Tupolev Tu-22M3 Crashing In Murmansk Landing In Bad Weather |
| 2019-01-28 |
| Go to 1:26 Hard landings can be a B!TCH. |
| Posted by:Anomalous Sources |
| #7 Speaking of yesterday's video, did anyone recognize the not-so-fuzzy one at 2:40? Grey(ish), side view, straight down the runway left to right? Tail reminiscent of Phantom but both wings in horizontal plane? Drove me nuts... so familiar but I couldn't place it. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2019-01-28 13:17 |
| #6 I'll never complain about Southwest again. Good comments, guys. |
| Posted by: Matt 2019-01-28 12:00 |
| #5 Not on yesterday's "Jets flying low." |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-01-28 09:24 |
| #4 Re#1: Back in my Tomcat days. there was at least 1 recorded instance of one also landing with wings still swept, fortunately there as a long land field cuz, you weren't going to get that back on the boat. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2019-01-28 08:11 |
| #3 The maintenance men couldn't get good vodka - drunk the staff they got from a street vendor? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-01-28 06:15 |
| #2 Anyone else noticing the "lightning" in the smoke? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-01-28 05:59 |
| #1 ...If you take a look at the plane just before impact, you can see that the wings are still swept back (the Backfire is a swing-wing design), which at least in part explains the speed at which they were coming in. I'm thinking that the wing sweep mechanism may have gone south on them, and the pilot was bringing them down the best he could. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2019-01-28 04:08 |