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November 20th, 2004, 21:26
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2004 Location: Boston
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|  A333 landing I saw some A333 landings today and every one landed with the nose at a very high pitch with the tail almost touching the ground. Why do they land this way? I'm just curious  |
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November 20th, 2004, 21:30
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| Moderator  Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Socal
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| Re: A333 landing It is european, and all hodie todie. |
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November 21st, 2004, 00:46
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: KPHX, KFFZ, KIWA
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    | Re: A333 landing What is an A333????  Matthew |
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November 21st, 2004, 01:43
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| Re: A333 landing A330-300 |
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November 21st, 2004, 08:49
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Georgia
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| Re: A333 landing Airplanes with leading edge devices can maintain a higher pitch attitude/angle of attack which means lower landing speeds. When you get a long airplane like the A330 the engineers like to keep the gear as short as possible to save weight and because a tall landing gear is hard to find space for. So they make the gear just long enough to keep the tail from striking in normal operations. Then they design a tough tail skid so that when the occasional tail strike does happen, the airplane doesn't get damaged structurally. Than means in normal ops the tail is always going to come very close to the runway on takeoff and landing. Even on an aiplane like the 737 we had occasional tail strikes. I've heard the -900 versions are very susceptible to that. |
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November 21st, 2004, 11:54
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| Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Boston
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| Re: A333 landing [ QUOTE ] Airplanes with leading edge devices can maintain a higher pitch attitude/angle of attack which means lower landing speeds. When you get a long airplane like the A330 the engineers like to keep the gear as short as possible to save weight and because a tall landing gear is hard to find space for. So they make the gear just long enough to keep the tail from striking in normal operations. Then they design a tough tail skid so that when the occasional tail strike does happen, the airplane doesn't get damaged structurally. Than means in normal ops the tail is always going to come very close to the runway on takeoff and landing. Even on an aiplane like the 737 we had occasional tail strikes. I've heard the -900 versions are very susceptible to that. [/ QUOTE ]Thanks for the explanation  |
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