Posted: 8/5/2012 9:29:38 AM EDT
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Apparently they were going to take this Victor for a high speed taxi as part of an airshow and the airplane said, "I want to fly."
According to the story, there was an inexperienced engineer who was driving it for the demo. When it went airborne an old hand took over and salvaged what came close to being a smoking ball of fire. 
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There is no way on God's earth that I would have tried to land that plane at that point in the flight. That being said, hey everyone walks away, nothintg banged up, it's still a win! This. I would have said "fuck it, time to fly for a bit" and firewalled the bitch. |
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Wow, that took extraordinarily bad judgment to try and land the aircraft on the remaining runway. How long is that strip anyway? That video is one of the worst displays of airmanship that didn't end up in a flaming ball of wreckage. Top five, for sure.  The "Pilots" commentary made no sense whatsoever. Co-Pilots hand is on throttle, he doesn't respond, so the "Cpt" takes his hand off the yoke to grab the throttles, which allows the aircraft to rotate?  Is that some weird Brit crew coordination? I cant even form a mental picture of what happened. Musta been assholes over elbows. |
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Airborne between 15 and 20 seconds after brake release (about 0:45), impressive for something that size. Must've been lightweight, too. It likely had merely a sip of fuel in it, just enough to dick around on the ground for the show...another reason the pilot who saved the day may have been very adamant about putting her down as opposed to taking off. |
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Eh, what can I say. I really doubt this was accidental. The aircraft clearly rotated. It flew because it was told to. As for recovering the botched "high speed taxi", hey, aircraft is in one piece, people are uninjured, and the crowd went wild. Definitely they Yanked back on the bitch. |
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Airborne between 15 and 20 seconds after brake release (about 0:45), impressive for something that size. Must've been lightweight, too. Let's call it 1000 hours turbine PIC. Rounding, don't you know. I don't have 1000 hours TPIC  I was totally confused by Pickle's comment. Now I get it. My 0:45 was refering to the elapsed time of the video, not the duration of the "flight". |
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If this was an accident it was some piss poor planning. What are those TO briefs again? Engine fail after V1 and we're going! Good job getting her down and stopped but I probably would have taken three minutes to do a pattern and come home. Again, it's very unlikely that the aircraft was anywhere near airworthy and probably had absolutely MINIMAL fuel in it. |
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If this was an accident it was some piss poor planning. What are those TO briefs again? Engine fail after V1 and we're going! Good job getting her down and stopped but I probably would have taken three minutes to do a pattern and come home. Again, it's very unlikely that the aircraft was anywhere near airworthy and probably had absolutely MINIMAL fuel in it. Thought I read that there were not pilots in the seats? So they probably didn't do a takeoff brief since they weren't planning on taking off. Nonpilots up front in the seats means they were probably shitting bricks when the thing lifted off. |
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If this was an accident it was some piss poor planning. What are those TO briefs again? Engine fail after V1 and we're going! Good job getting her down and stopped but I probably would have taken three minutes to do a pattern and come home. Again, it's very unlikely that the aircraft was anywhere near airworthy and probably had absolutely MINIMAL fuel in it. Thought I read that there were not pilots in the seats? So they probably didn't do a takeoff brief since they weren't planning on taking off. Nonpilots up front in the seats means they were probably shitting bricks when the thing lifted off. Didn't hear that. If nobody was sitting up front, who was operating the throttles? |
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If this was an accident it was some piss poor planning. What are those TO briefs again? Engine fail after V1 and we're going! Good job getting her down and stopped but I probably would have taken three minutes to do a pattern and come home. Again, it's very unlikely that the aircraft was anywhere near airworthy and probably had absolutely MINIMAL fuel in it. Then don't let it approach flying speed. A blown tire at 80 is still a potentially bad day. |
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If this was an accident it was some piss poor planning. What are those TO briefs again? Engine fail after V1 and we're going! Good job getting her down and stopped but I probably would have taken three minutes to do a pattern and come home. Again, it's very unlikely that the aircraft was anywhere near airworthy and probably had absolutely MINIMAL fuel in it. Then don't let it approach flying speed. A blown tire at 80 is still a potentially bad day. Agreed. |
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