On Mar 6, 10:49*am, jcarlyle wrote:
Man - that's terrible! That must be one really difficult plane to
land, or these guys must not have many hours of experience.

-john

Note sure of present day qualifications, but IIRC, back in the 1980's
I was told that it took 1500 hours of stick time to get a shot and
three tries at landing to get accepted. You had to have the touch.

A bent wing meant a museum piece as the spars were machined from a
single billet of aluminum.

Frank