Concordski rough landing

I believe this is quite a recent video (last 10years or so) when the aircraft was on a one off ferry flight (as can be vouched by the Boeing / NASA partnership – I just wonder when the last time any of the crew had (if ever) flown that perticular aircraft type before?!?

Why do you say ‘ferry flight’ ???

The a/c is the Tu-144LL (LL = Flying Laboratory).

It was taken out of mothballs and refurbished – with money provided by NASA, Rockwell & Boeing etc.

http://www1.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/photo/TU-144LL/index.html
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/history/pastprojects/TU-144/index.html

It was fitted with Kuznetsov NK-321 engines from a Tu-160.

All the flying was done in Russia from Zhukovsky – so where was the ‘ferry flight’ ??

Ken

Thank you REn for making my day!!

This Concorde video is rarther good too…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RsJqMjpFNs

I believe this is quite a recent video (last 10years or so) when the aircraft was on a one off ferry flight (as can be vouched by the Boeing / NASA partnership – I just wonder when the last time any of the crew had (if ever) flown that perticular aircraft type before?!?

This looks a tad like windsheer to me, if you look closely whilst he’s in the hold-off to to touch down he is actually straight & level, then the lift just dumps from the back end causing it to sink, he may have been doing tailwind trials? hence the appearance of the extra groundspeed if any, but without a visible windsock this is impossible to determine