On 12/4/03 9:21 AM, in article , "nafod40"
wrote:

Pechs1 wrote:
Doug- Gear up T&G in a T-2? How'd that work out for you? BRBR

Got my attention, really loud, skipping off the runway..I was in the trunk as
a
'IP' teaching another JO the T-2(in VF-126).

Anybody else remember the post-night-form-midair-fluster-induced gear up
night landing in the A-4 by a stud? I still have the Approach article.



I don't remember that one. Perhaps I should, but I don't. Feel free to
refresh my memory.

Speaking of bouncing gear up jets off of runways: I did know a guy who
punched out of an RF-8 in Da Nang (I think it was Da Nang) resulting from a
"fluster induced" premature gear retract.

He was a JG at the time. He was in a hurry to join two LCDR's flying
Scooters. They were taking a cross country in the middle of the deployment
to Cubi. (What a concept!) There was a low overcast.

The A-4 jocks planned a section go, promising to stay beneath the scud until
he was aboard, and then punch up through as a flight.

They took off and immediately disappeared into the clag. He (wondering what
to do next) reverted to his old habit patterns and through the gear up as
soon as the jet felt light. (Keep in mind this was his first field take off
in several months, so he was operating off of shipboard habit
pattern--frustrated, brain stem only at this point).

The jet didn't have flying speed, settled onto the runway, bounced, fodded
the motor, started coughing and chugging and shutting itself down, so he
punched out. It careened back into the runway leaving a big mess.

They did the FNAEB on him 2 days later and put him right back on the flight
schedule.

--Woody