Vipers can crawl!

[+Cliff7600]

Amazing, but what happened?

 

 

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Norway---Air/General-Dynamics-(Fokker)/2043082/L/

[Slartibartfast]

Someone forgot to put his wheels down looks like and when he heard the tank scraping he pulled up and put his wheels down for the next go...

[Derk]

Hi, hi, years ago a Norwegian Viper driver forgot to lower his landing gear at our good old Soesterberg AB (when it was still open) during a visit to Veltro's old bunch of Indians......... . No further problems except for a severely scratched fuel tank and a litlle dent in someones reputation after a go around and a conventional landing .......... (and fot the rest the beer was rather cheaper at the 32 TFS mess than it was in Norway so everything was allright in the end )

Edited October 22, 2012 by Derk

[Toryu]

The tank is a god gear-substitute - especially when the gear doesn't WANT to come down, like in this training-incident (one of the first student-solos on the Viper for the pilot, as I recall).

 

So is the ECM-pod(?):

 

 

A-4s also did rather good landings on their dual 300gal-tanks.

Edited October 22, 2012 by Toryu

[Derk]

Oooops, afraid the ECM landing is Leeuwarden. Wonder what's more expensive, the ALQ 131 or the designator (or recce) pod....

[fireengineer]

For a moment I thought he had jettisoned the tank but the thing got stuck, so the whole plane dropped..........

[Nesher]

thanks for sharing, you too Toryu!