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tigisfat
April 23rd, 2010, 23:05
Check this out. This one-time one-way flight into a grass area was to set up a museum.

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wiltzei
April 23rd, 2010, 23:40
A fair amount of dynamic braking. :icon_lol:
stansdds
April 24th, 2010, 04:10
All I can say is "wow"!
cheezyflier
April 24th, 2010, 07:33
very cool stuff :applause: what was the big white block in the middle of the screen for?
kilo delta
April 24th, 2010, 07:39
A fair amount of dynamic braking. :icon_lol:

Yep...the extremely rare,experimental "Il-62 Taildragger"

PS. Eurocontrol were worried over a little Volcanic ash/dust...wonder what they'd make of that airliner have ingested half an acre of meadow!! :d
Bjoern
April 25th, 2010, 16:34
Yep...the extremely rare,experimental "Il-62 Taildragger"

Actually the IL-62 just used its tailguard, a small extendable extra wheel.


PS. Eurocontrol were worried over a little Volcanic ash/dust...wonder what they'd make of that airliner have ingested half an acre of meadow!! :d

Russian birds could ingest the whole volcano and still fly. ;)
Sadly, they've become rare.


RIP Interflug.
PeteHam
April 25th, 2010, 17:43
Interesting bit of history .... thanks for sharing.

As a side note Boeing flew the 737 into and out of Hope (CYHE) BC

http://hopeflightfest.com/photos.html (http://hopeflightfest.com/photos.html)

On <ST1:dSeptember 21 1972 Hope Regional Airpark was host to an amazing event! A Boeing 737 landed and took off several times on our 4,600-foot grass runway.

Hope Airpark was chosen by the Boeing Corporation as the perfect laboratory to test the 737's performance on a grass field.

The plane was fitted with special low-pressure tires, and the runway was wetted by tanker trucks to test performance on wet grass.

Resulting tire ruts left by the 90,000-pound aircraft were measured and recorded by Boeing engineers.

The Boeing pilot was Lew Wallick Jr.


Pete.
Bjoern
April 25th, 2010, 17:53
Interesting bit of history .... thanks for sharing.

As a side note Boeing flew the 737 into and out of Hope (CYHE) BC

Interesting. Might have been possibly related to the use of gravel kits on the 737?

Those versions are quite popular in Canada to the very day. I think the 732 was the only version with a gravel kit as an optional feature.