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KC-10 Driver ✈ B-737 Wrangler @MCCCANM -A “gear up” landing isn’t as bad as it’s sometimes made out to be. We had a T-37 do it; they knew it was coming so we all went out to watch. Makes a terrible noise, but that jet flew again a couple weeks later.
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They no longer “foam the runway”, at least in the U.S.. The practice stopped some time ago…it used up the foam they might need for a fire & it made the slide longer than necessary.
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A more worrisome scenario is having one main gear stuck out & the rest retracted. That may cause a tumble & be very bad. Landing gear sometimes gets stuck down & wont come up…which isn’t scary. Just land (you can’t continue, it’s too much drag & you won’t have the fuel).
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Most airliners have an alternate means of extending the landing gear if the hydraulic systems fail. They can be dropped by releasing the locks that hold them up, allowing gravity to pull them down, assisted by airflow. In the 737, there is a set of cables you pull. The weight of the gear forces the doors open.
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One of NASA’s WB-57s just conducted a wheels up belly landing at Ellington Airport in Houston.
https://x.com/MCCCANM/status/2016235704821620829
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