Tire smoke gets in your eyes....

On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:43:53 +0100, ®i©ardo wrote:

I can still recall, as a paratrooper in the 60s, standing in the door of
a Blackburn Beverley waiting for the green light to come on so that I
could depart and watching the main undercarriage wheels turning in the
slipstream. I doubt, though, that that was intentional in order to
reduce tyre wear.

I tell ya - for folks that brought us the Fury/Hart, Spitfire, Hunter,
Comet and 'alf a Concorde, you Brits could sure hit the urgly button
once in a while!

(Yeah - I know Boeing crapped out the X-32...)

On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:49:32 -0500, "Canuck"
wrote:

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"the Legend of LAX" wrote in message
m...
Maybe because there are only two wheels per truck instead of four.


On 10/12/2010 8:49 AM, Canuck wrote:


It was interesting to watch the arriving aircraft. Most every other type
did not kick up that much smoke. However, ALL of the 737s did. Even a
similarly sized Embraer managed to pull off a nice touchdown with barely
a puff of smoke.

N.



Hmmm.... I'm not so sure this is the answer. Everything else coming in was
of the CRJ / Embraer / Regional Jet variety and all of those seem to have
two wheels just like a 737. Perhaps it is a landing weight and speed
dependant issue more so than anything else. Then again, pilot skill has
something to do with it too. One particularly smoky landing gave me two sets
of puffs as the aircraft bounced down the runway on touchdown.

Ain't called "Boings" fer nothing...

I've seen Seattle-based Alaska Airlines - experts in greasing 737s
into short fields in zero visibility with 40 knot sidewinds - nearly
break the wings off in calm sunny weather.