Kingfish wrote in
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On Sep 30, 9:37 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Kingfish wrote in
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On Sep 30, 12:00 pm, "Martin X. Moleski, SJ"
wrote:

It looks totally photoshopped to me (or CGI).

I doubt that an RC plane--or any full scale!--could plant the
mains like that and get that much of a bounce out of the nose
wheel.

We've seen this one before in this forum. I think the consensus was
an R/C jet that had some CGI enhancements for the commercial. A
real jet wouldn't oscillate that fast and make those booms every
time the nose gear touched down.

Actually, it probably would.

Plus, there are no brakes on the nose gear, so where does the tire
smoke come from after the intial touchdown?

It's plausible that they'd smoke like that with that kind of impact.
Large tires like that take a moment or two to spin up and they get
scuffed just from normal touchdowns.

Some jets do have nosewheel, brakes, BTW, though. don't think the 320
does, though.

Bertie

If you look at the full clip at the :16 mark the nosewheel locks up
and smokes. Impossible, seeing as the A320 doesn't have nose wheel
brakes like you'd agreed. I'm curious to know what large jets do have
nose wheel brakes? The speed of the plane's bouncing just doesn't look
right.


The 727 had nosewheel brakes, for one. But I don't see it locking up,
just coming down quick. I really can't make my mind up about this, it's
driving me nuts!
I have some feelers out. Most of the guys I work with think it;'s a
fake, but most of them thought thre were WMDs in Iraq.

Bertie