In these situations Emilio, you always want to fly the aircraft nose down to
the ground. Never want it to drop because even a two or three foot drop
will most likely severely damage the aircraft. B-1B landed at Edwards in
the late 80's with the nose gear up and, with no practice for this manuever,
the pilot let it fall about two feet onto the nose. Lots of damage. He had
the idea to fly it down, but without any reference picture or practice, it
fell the last two feet.


I remember that one, it was show live on some cable news channels.


Ron
Pilot/Wildland Firefighter