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A380 hard landing at Oshkosh - video
"a" wrote in message ... On Aug 5, 10:06 pm, brian whatcott wrote: Gilbert Smith wrote: On the crosswind, all aviation videos (other than those taken standing on the centre line) appear to show massive drift angles. What sort of crosswind would require 10 deg of crab on an a/c of this size ? Ahem... for an aircraft of ANY size, a 10 degree crab is required by an 18 kt crosswind, for every 100 kts of approach sppeed. But approaching aircraft are photographed by telephoto lenses - which greatly exaggerate visual crab angle. Brian W Brian, you're not quite right, it's more nearly an inverse relationship between crab angle and airspeed, angle increasing as air speed decreases for a given crosswind. Think of the crab angle if you flew a 100 kt pproach into a 100 kt xwind. You'd fly at 90 degrees to the runway and have the shortest landing roll you can possibly have and still have a useful airplane afterwards! You would not be moving, you would have to increase airspeed, until you reached the runway. Of course, getting to your tie down would be a problem. |
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