"Corky Scott" wrote in message ...
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:56:41 GMT, "Jan Nademlejnsky"
wrote:

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When he touched down, I was struck by how negative an attack the
airplane assumed when riding on all three landing gear. I can only
guess at the reasons, but seeing ahead out of the tiny bubble might be
one, the other might be to make SURE the airplane stays on the ground
once it touches down.

Corky Scott

I imagine that the light weight at landing did not compress the main gear struts nearly as much as the heavy weight at
takeoff, thus the nose down attitude...