Fwd: C-130 Gear Collapse

Keep your eye on the outboard engine on the right wing as the wingtip touches the runway and the prop strikes the pavement.  The prop mounting bolts shear off, the prop assembly separates from the driveshaft and the engine runs away in a cloud of smoke.  Just before that, something either ruptured a wing tank or cut a fuel line in the vicinity of the inboard engine, with a huge fireball that didn't turn into a major fire.

 

But the most impressive thing was how the pilots shut down the remaining three engines, simultaneously went to coarse pitch on the propellers, and got out of there, all in about 30 seconds.  I guess all the training kicks in, and you go on pure adrenalin.  Best in Full Screen mode.

 

   C130 Gear Collapae.asf

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Anthony Harper