foaming the runway

Kev wrote:

* a failed engine makes a GA airplane dive out of control
* when diving out of control, both pilots must pull back on the yoke
* etc
When in that uncontrollasble dive, you get prop overspeed noises
even if the plane is turbine powered.

"Kev" wrote in message

..... And how the AP
reported breathlessly that the pilot did something unusual when he
"balanced the plane on its rear wheels while landing". I guess they
never noticed that's the way airplanes usually land.

Knowledge and accuracy have naught to do with it. You should know that by
now. All these talking-head news weasels are constantly searching for that
one big story that will propel them to national prominence. Any abnormality
in aviation has them hoping and praying for an exclusive stand-up with a
thirty second clear shot of a Sioux City redux. Absent that, they will
desperately try to convince the public that it *almost* happened -- We were
Just!!! That!!! Close!!! to disaster!!!, and we caught it for you LIVE!!!!!.
Now back to you, Randy! Heather Clueless- [designer top open to the second
button, hair cutely and fashionably tousled] KQXX Disaster-Cam News!!
L-A-X!

Bucky wrote:
R: OK, I know I'm testing your patience here. One last time for our
listeners: you are NOT foaming the runway?
F: No, we are not foaming the runway.
R: Hmm, I must have watched too many Bruce Willis movies.

delurk and hallo

Here's a nice foamy runway: http://www.bywat.co.uk/manston.html . But I
see from

http://www.boeing.com/assocproducts/...quirements.pdf

that this sort of thing is no longer fashionable and anyway was mostly
military.

But I expect you know all this. I'm posting because I did have some
memory of a more recent civil airliner landing on a foamed runway...
hmm, well, this isn't it but Wikipedia mentions a Vietnam Airlines
incident: "29 October 2004: The nose gear of an Airbus A321 failed to
deploy prior to landing at Hanoi. The aircraft declared an emergency
and landed without the nose gear on a runway lined with foam." Dunno if
there is any accuracy to this.

Anyway.

What's my justification for posting anything here? Not much: I'm not a
pilot (though my father was; RAF in the war (Liberators in Coastal
Command) and airlines after (Hermes to 707)).

And as a minor matter of passing historical interest, our guest young
bachelor at Christmas for some years in the early 60s was Ian Whittle
(son of Sir Frank), a flying colleague of my father's in Kuwait
Airways, and who spoke at his funeral last year. They first flew
together on a DC-3 out of Beirut in 1958. Prior to that, Ian had flown
Vampires with the RAF, iirc, and he ended his career on 747s for Cathay
Pacific.

And he gave me a pogo stick one Christmas.

Cheers!
relurk
--
Nick