Author: JNugentJNugent Date: Jun 4, 2007 16:31
allan tracy wrote:
>>>You can't raise or lower the landing gear unless the hydraulic pumps
>>>are operating.
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>>>Perhaps they left the engines running too!
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>>They can be lowered, what if the hydraulics fail!
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> Come to think of it, I remember seeing pictures of a 747 still at the
> gate after its nose wheel had been accidently retracted
There was a famous sequence in a feature film ("No Highway In The
Sky") where James Stewart's character, convinced that the airliner he
had designed was due to crash though metal fatigue, "lifted" the
undercarriage whilst the plane was stationary on the runway.
Mind you, it was fiction.
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