Aerowerx
Well-Known Member
I was watching an old Steve Canyon TV series episode, from 1958.
He was coming in flying a tandem seat trainer* when the tower noticed the nose wheel was missing.
After the runway was foamed he landed with the gear down.
What I would like to know is would it be better to retract the gear and do a belly landing? Of course, that would do more damage to the plane, but with the gear down there is the possibility of catching the strut and flipping over.
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*I don't remember what the designation of the trainer jet was, but it was a tandem seat with wing tip tanks, straight wing. I remember I used to have plastic scale model of it.
He was coming in flying a tandem seat trainer* when the tower noticed the nose wheel was missing.
After the runway was foamed he landed with the gear down.
What I would like to know is would it be better to retract the gear and do a belly landing? Of course, that would do more damage to the plane, but with the gear down there is the possibility of catching the strut and flipping over.
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*I don't remember what the designation of the trainer jet was, but it was a tandem seat with wing tip tanks, straight wing. I remember I used to have plastic scale model of it.
