Rumsfeld and flying

Ron W wrote:
You want to explain that again? I'm having trouble getting a mental picture
of what you did. You grind the nose on the runway, then lower the gear?
After grinding, then you flare? I'm missing something.

Sorry I guess I was a little too terse. We flew our final at 800 ft
altitude above ground, (IIRC) until the nose of the a/c just passed
over the end of the runway below, then chopped power, etc, and
flared out of the rather steep end of the final approach.. We didn't
grind anything along the runway if we did things right. Remember during the
air lift, they were hauling loads onto relativly short runways surrounded by
buildings. Their approaches needed to be steep! We
certainly didn't need to did this at Yokota, but the demonstration was
an effective learning tool, if it was needed else where!


Thanks for the more complete explanation; I got that one. I wish I could say I
was flying the C-54, but the closest I ever got to one was riding in the back as
a kid. There's two other C-54 drivers he one former and one current.



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