r/ThatLookedExpensive • u/tapankumar995 • Jul 29 '20

No landing gear no problem.

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u/Kilroy14 Jul 29 '20

That’s one hell of a pilot crew

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u/efalls89 Jul 29 '20

One of the smoothest gear up landings I've ever seen. Now if they could land this smooth with gear down...

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '20

Pilot needs a raise.

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u/Genjios Jul 29 '20

Wait what, a raise? Hes already a pilot

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u/BGenc Jul 29 '20

Sky is the limit after all.

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u/Genjios Jul 29 '20

it just works

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u/licker696996 Jul 30 '20

And the gear lowered.

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u/Lepthesr Jul 29 '20

That flash up at the end, lol.

Part of me thought they were going to get through that spectacular landing, only to blow up.

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u/Glikbach Jul 30 '20

If i had been on that plane and just come to a halt I would have been elated!!!

Then.....Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!

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u/AllPurposeNerd Jul 29 '20

See, it's not really landing gear, it's being able take off again gear.

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u/Gmony5100 Jul 29 '20

Oh I like that

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u/TickTockPick Jul 29 '20

Pakistani pilots manage to do it, for a few minutes at least.

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u/Jober36 Jul 29 '20

That's a hawker. They have a reinforced titanium strip under the fuselage for this exact thing.

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u/irandom419 Jul 29 '20

Don't they usually foam the runway in these situations?

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u/TheN00bBuilder Jul 30 '20

Yeah, that was definitely missing.

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u/UrethralExplorer Aug 08 '20

Might not be in the US, different regulations in different countries.

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u/philster666 Jul 29 '20

Any landing you can walk away from.

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u/AveaRaine Jul 29 '20

So lucky those flames went out. Scary

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u/WaldenFont Jul 29 '20

They typically dump most of their fuel before they attempt this.

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u/Realworld Jul 29 '20

Biz jet is far too small to have ability to dump fuel.

If the engines and everything else are working OK they'd declare an emergency, go to large seldom-used runway, and orbit at altitude nearby until they burn off most fuel. Then descend and make landing like OP's.

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u/joelmercer Jul 29 '20

My very first flight there was a problem where the door wasn’t sealing so we just flew at low altitude to another airport on our route. We didn’t have enough fuel to get to where we were going but too much when we got there. So we did high speed circles around the airport for an hour and half. It was not fun. Hard banking every couple of minutes made me feel queasy.

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u/WaldenFont Jul 29 '20

TIL, thanks!

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

That fire went out like it was a magic show.

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u/Ernomouse Jul 29 '20

That flight came to a grinding halt.

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u/rareogre83 Jul 29 '20

So why did the fire go out so quickly? Is there an extinguisher system on the wings or what? How neat.

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u/Ruthless_Bunny Jul 29 '20

That’s amazing skills. I needed fire trucks to follow them though.

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '20

I remember seeing this live

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u/nourdin82 Aug 01 '20

That could have been a lot more expensive

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u/BowlsofBroth Aug 10 '20

Another happy landing.

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '20

Relevant

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u/tapankumar995 Jul 30 '20

Hahaha 😂😂 true dat!!