[EnjoyingLife]

The other recent F/A-18 Hornet thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1737296/posts

[Glenn]

Very impressive photography!

[Doctor Raoul]

The stabs dug in...

Leading to ahis new call sign...."Plow Boy"

[operation clinton cleanup]

Yikes! Nice save by the pilot.

[spower]

Great shots! I've blown a few tires, but never been spun around like that. Maybe the anti-skid system malfunctioned??

[TChris]

*sigh*

Dang Navy pilots... ;-)

Really, very glad he's OK. The plane appears to be mostly alright too.

Very impressive photos!

[Redcitizen]

The back end came around...He did almost a complete 360...

He must have been watching "The Fast and the Furious; Tokyo Drift".

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

Jeez, never saw an airplane do a bootlegger reverse...

[raybbr]

My wife mentioned something about Air Force One blowings its tires. Any news on that?

[raybbr]

You gotta wonder how the photog just happened to be taking pictures at the time.

[Blueflag]

Can't help but notice this is a TWO-SEATER.

I wonder WHICH pilot landed the aircraft???

The Lt. Cmndr in the front? or the LTJG in the back. heheh

time wil tell (or maybe I should read the article; but that's too easy)

[Mogollon]

Good thing the landing wasn't on the deck of pitching carrier deck.

[airforceF4]

Oh man, his crew chief is gonna be pissed!!

[gridlock]

Total elapsed time: 1.5 seconds, or two weeks, depending on where you're sitting...

[al_c]

I like the way he steered into the skid. ;o)

[Chuck54]

bttt

[Mat_Helm]

Without seeing a video it would be speculation to determine cause of right main failure. From the photographers description it sounds like he was on the roll out when the first tire blew so it sounds like it was not the result of a heavy touch down. He may have had a planning link failure that possibly went undetected. If when he lowered the gear there would have been a warning and a flashing gear handle and he would have elected to go around and call for a short field arresment. Once the tire blew he would not use brakes on the good tire unless it was to maintain directional control. He would have used nosewheel steering to maintain directional control, as control surfaces would have little aerodynamic affect to keep him on the runway. With the second tire blown it was likely from braking trying to stay on the runway. He was at full flaps and was giving full forward (nose down) stab for areobraking and just before ground looping was inputing full right aileron when he was possibly attempting to use the left main brake before it blew. Engine nozzles show no asymmetric thrust and appear to be at idle. The antiskid would have been off or switched off with the blown tire. He did good to keep it level.

One of the F-14 Pilots that shot down the Libyan Migs died in a tragic antiskid failure on a wet runway. He had just transitioned to Hornets and after landing skidded off the runway much like this at Point Magu and flipped over off the runway in the wet mud. Very sad.

[labette]

Let's tip our hats to his guardian angel.

[verum ago]

this gave me a flashback to an airshow at Mountain Home AFB I attended where a Thunderbird crashed close enough to me to make me very uncomfortable from the heat:

[dcrider182]

Bump for later watching!
~D

[macmedic892]

Okay, I've seen the pictures and the YouTube video and I can only have two comments:

Pucker Factor!
and
Damn that's a funny way to park a plane!