biggles Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 Royal Flying Doctor plane skids 500m after wheel collapses on landing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bexrbetter Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 Well I hope their plane is confiscated and crushed for doing "skids". 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planesmaker Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 Maybe a Cessna doing skids compliance 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaz3g Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 Well I hope their plane is confiscated and crushed for doing "skids". I just knew you would slip in something controversial here...kaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bexrbetter Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 I just knew you would slip in something controversial here...kaz Well I'm extremely disappointed if I'm becoming readable, I'll have to try harder. Was humour by the way, not controversy, I'll add a next time ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David2ayo Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 The article has a classic statement " "We were lucky that when the plane did stop it was in its final part of slowing down," he said." Now, I'm a bit confused how an aircraft of any size can be taxiing, (which infers slow speed) have a wheel collapse and skid for half a kilometer. The other bit of a gem is the "unrelated" incident mentioned at the end of the article in Moomba SA on Tuesday. Fortunately the final report won't be written by a journalist. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 If an aircraft undercarriage survives the actual initial contact, which is the BIG load and then retracts as you are slowing down, it's a fairly unusual event unless.... the gear doesn't stay locked. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tuncks Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 The flying doctor sure has expensive planes these days. I remember them operating with pommy Dragon Rapides out of Alice Springs town strip. One day, one of these failed to become airbourne when departing Hermannsburg. They had to use pommy planes because Bob Menzies was an anglophile.I don't know what the temperature and density altutude was, but they might have been extreme. I reckon a 2 engined big Jabiru would be a good plane for them. Fixed U/C and made in Australia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 Australia is a big place . You need speed and pressurisation to get over the weather and out of the heat. Nev 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaz3g Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Was humour by the way, not controversy, ... Me too Kaz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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