Dead Stick Landings

I shook the hand of a pilot who "dead sticked" a B24.

Pretty neat dead sticking that thing.
The coolest dead stick landing (IMHO) occured on April 4, 1963 when Stu
Harrison dead-sticked an F-8 Crusader on to a carrier.


-John
*You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman or North
American*

On 28 Jul 2003 11:35:44 -0700, (Rocky) wrote:

Aside from glider pilots.... how many of you have ever experienced an
engine out dead stick landing? Care to talk about it? I've done quite
a few of them. Some were intentional, some were during training, and
some happened at the most inopportune time with mechanical failures of
one sort or other. This included helicopters and airplanes.

Engine quit on take off...bout a 100 MPH and some where between 30 and
50 feet.

I just let the nose down, put in full flaps and discovered that I was
stopped on a lot less distance than I had expected.

The diaphragm in the fuel distribution block (on top of the fuel
injected engine) ruptured. That diaphragm uses fuel pressure to
open a valve. No pressure and the valve closes to keep fuel from
siphoning off into the cylinders.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

That is one set of solid blue steel, cajones!

Denny

"Ditch" wrote in message
...
I shook the hand of a pilot who "dead sticked" a B24.

Pretty neat dead sticking that thing.
The coolest dead stick landing (IMHO) occured on April 4, 1963 when Stu
Harrison dead-sticked an F-8 Crusader on to a carrier.


-John
*You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman or
North
American*

Ditch

Can you give us the story please.

When I was seconded to Navy, loss of engine in SE bird, you punched.

If he lost just at touch down, another story. No bolter ability and
hand on the ejection system if he didn't get at least the #4 wire.

Big John


On 30 Jul 2003 05:07:11 GMT, ost (Ditch) wrote:

I shook the hand of a pilot who "dead sticked" a B24.

Pretty neat dead sticking that thing.
The coolest dead stick landing (IMHO) occured on April 4, 1963 when Stu
Harrison dead-sticked an F-8 Crusader on to a carrier.


-John
*You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman or North
American*

On 28 Jul 2003 11:35:44 -0700, (Rocky) wrote:

Aside from glider pilots.... how many of you have ever experienced an
engine out dead stick landing?

Unintentional... two (not counting several in the powered
paraglider I'm flying these days, but you expect that with 2-stroke
engines). The two were both in the Taylorcraft I used to own. One
was when a valve seat came loose about 100' in the air on takeoff.
Got it back down on the runway (a wheel landing well above stall
speed) and screeched to a halt just before the tall weeds beyond the
end of the field. It was a credit to my passenger that he stuck with
me when I rented a 172 to finish the business trip we were on.

The other was contaminated fuel (the FBO had just bought a new
fuel truck; apparently I got a load of crud but even though I drained
the gascolator before flight, apparently it hadn't had time to settle
out yet). I made an uneventful landing in a rural field in NJ, and
only after stopping did I notice the rusty windsock frame near the
edge of the field.... apparently it was an abandoned cropduster's
field.

During the brief time I kept the plane at a field with a long
runway, I used to routinely shut down and do deadstick landings....
good practice, the airplane definitely handled differently.

-Dana
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