A single seat Yak (silver with red stripe and red rudder, couldn’t see any other distinguishing marks other than the red stars. Yaks – I can’t get my head around them!) has belly-landed at Shoreham. Think it happened this morning. TV showed firefighters hosing it down – probably for the cameras.
It didn’t look badly damaged so it probably will be airborne again at some point in the future – like I’d know.
Flood
By: mike currill - 16th August 2003 at 18:40
Originally posted by Moggy C
Shouldn’t that have been “The double negative isn’t not a yes yes” ?Moggy
depends on your point of view I guess
By: Moggy C - 16th August 2003 at 11:52
Shouldn’t that have been “The double negative isn’t not a yes yes” ?
Moggy
By: mike currill - 15th August 2003 at 21:11
Originally posted by von Perthes
The double negative is a complete No No.
The doble negative is a yes yes
By: Willow - 15th August 2003 at 14:26
No it isn’t 😀
Willow
By: von Perthes - 15th August 2003 at 14:16
The double negative is a complete No No.
By: Willow - 15th August 2003 at 13:59
But the ‘personal needs’ situation must be horrendous.
The rear fuselage must have been full by the time he ‘landed’ 🙂
By: Yak 11 Fan - 15th August 2003 at 13:55
Rather him than me, still I suppose it’s cheaper to get an insurance claim than pay for the wing mod when it runs out of hours :p
By: Willow - 15th August 2003 at 13:48
Originally posted by Yak 11 Fan
Mr Nicol said he had been flying for 20 years and had never experienced the problem before.He said: “I’ve been doing this for a long time.
That’s one hell of an endurance for a Yak50 😀 😀 😀
Willow
By: Yak 11 Fan - 15th August 2003 at 13:46
Originally posted by Moggy C
Hmm,Tricky double negative there.
I think possibly you aren’t not right, but might be not right. :confused:
Moggy
Very true Moggy, if he had not not deployed the anti chafing rubbers he wouldn’t of had the problem.
By: Yak 11 Fan - 15th August 2003 at 13:44
From a Brighton News site
Plane makes emergency landing
by our news team
An aerobatics pilot returning from an air show was forced to make an emergency landing when his wheels got stuck.
Lance Nicol was preparing to land at Shoreham Airport after performing in his Yak 50 Russian plane at Airbourne 2003 in Eastbourne with the Yakovlevs Display Team.
The undercarriage would not come down and rather than bailing out over the sea, Mr Nicol prepared to land without wheels on the grass runway.
Fire crews from Shoreham and Worthing were put on standby at the scene as he glided in at 3.50pm yesterday.
Mr Nicol, whose team is based in Sailsbury, turned off the engine and fuel system before touching down. He landed safely but the plane took a beating as it bumped to the ground, suffering damage to its fuselage and propellers.
Mr Nicol said he had been flying for 20 years and had never experienced the problem before.
He said: “I’ve been doing this for a long time.
“There were a lot of emergency checks to do prior to landing so you don’t have time to get scared They keep your mind occupied.”
By: Moggy C - 15th August 2003 at 13:44
Hmm,
Tricky double negative there.
I think possibly you aren’t not right, but might be not right. :confused:
Moggy
By: Yak 11 Fan - 15th August 2003 at 13:39
Oooooops, is this a case not not deploying the anti chafing rubbers?
Or even a case of not deploying the anti chafing rubbers
I may get it right in a bit
By: Willow - 15th August 2003 at 13:29
Yes, the single seater is the Yak50, but I’m not sure if it has the same ‘walk away’ undercarriage system. I think that being a tail dragger, the 50s undercarriage retracts towards the rear, which would put it a bit far back in the wing to save the front end in a belly landing.
Willow
By: Moggy C - 15th August 2003 at 13:17
The 52 has wheels that project even when retracted and can generally ‘walk away’ from a belly landing, particularly if the driver was quick enough to get the prop stopped before the landing. (Unusual for the engine to be stopped though, most Yak bellyflops happen through ‘stick actuator failure’ – a term I learnt from some techs at Lakenheath). There are lights in the cockpit and sticky-up physical tell-tales, yet still people do it.
Not sure if the single seater is the same. Is that a 50?
Moggy
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