Dylan Smith wrote:

On 2005-12-14, Morgans wrote:

Oh come on, those guys never had to land with a crosswind - how hard
can that be? G

Now if they had to do all that WITHOUT arresting cables then I'd be
impressed..

Perhaps they could do like they tried with the C-130, and the JATO bottles
pointed backwards.


They also did some other tests with the C-130 and backwards JATOs.
There's a video of one of their attempts.

It shows the C-130 on final, then they fire the rockets. A bit
too early, as it turns out - the plane comes to a complete halt
when still around 50 feet in the air, and predictably, falls out
the sky. The wings break off, bits of propellor shower the scene, flames
shoot out the stubs of the broken wings. While this is going on,
the narrator of the video in a bored voice says dryly, "Due to
a combination of factors, the rockets were fired prematurely
leading to an excessively hard landing"

You must not have seen the same video I did as the C-130 didn't even
come close to a complete stop in the air. It hit the runway at what
appeared to be 50 or so MPH and was still moving forward when the fires
broke out and it veered to the right.

Matt