Oshkosh 2024 IAC T 38 Landing Accident explained Lancaster

and here is the international aerobatic Club facility which is very nice which I'm a member of this vintage fact warber is the only group that I'm not a member of uh as far as uh EAA type of things and this is the uh oh by the way if I bring my uh Great Lakes up up here I can park in the uh IAC parking area here they have a special parking area right across the front I think our chapter president has his airplane up here as pits said he was flying up here and parked out front no it looks and of course we're coming back to the main flight line with the c17 couple of DC 3s B52 is still there the uh oh the t38 with the test pilot school might be gone H with the Navy test pilot school oh no NOP there it is over there in the corner I uh got some information about uh a particular T3 and I had one of my uh subscribers uh members uh followers whatever uh you want to call them uh who mentioned now this is the aircraft on my shirt here see right there that tail number 579 that's the one where I had the canopy come off at 500 knots 89 Mack and really got my attention and uh uh one of the GU said that later that went out to the Navy test pilot school in Pax River so I went up to uh one of the guys standing by it and uh you know got talking a little bit and I said hey what's the story on that and of course you know they don't always like to disclose accidents or incidents but what happened was uh they came in landed as student and instructor and apparently the student did not pull the power back less than 65% and of course this is a very slick aircraft with uh let's say not the best of brakes and they weren't stopping and they got towards the end of the runway and they realized it just wasn't going to stop nobody I guess realized that the power had not been pulled back all the way to idle and that residual thrust was enough that um they uh approached the end of the runway and went off the end of the runway or were about to go off the end of the runway so they punched out and uh uh the airplane was restored later and uh uh they they redid the wing and did some uh enhancements of course it has the dumb down intake there that uh is more efficient in certain respects but doesn't work quite as well as supersonic but uh let's take a look at the uh the gear here as you notice the gear is oh that tire pressure looks a little low the uh it's not a very substantial uh braking uh set of brakes there so you don't get a lot of fantastic braking power one thing interesting thing about this see if it still exists you can get out here in the wing and you can see it's hard to see on the camera but you can actually look all the way through the aircraft and uh see out the other side it works better if um you know you don't have uh um you know you got a lot better light course there's the speed brakes students have demonstrated that you can land on those and bring it to a stop and of course as you know the t38 is one of my favorite aircraft all right so that is the story of what happened to 579 uh when it went to when it went to uh the Navy test pilot school one thing that's interesting one of the guys commented was that uh the t38 was always we always talked about how easy it is to fly how you know good characteristics and stuff like that now they say compared to the modern uh aircraft you know you compare the t38 to the F4 the 104 uh yeah the 38 was easy to fly you compare now to a lot of the aircraft and it uh they say it's it's more difficult to fly which I thought was very interesting because I've always considered it a very honest easy aircraft to fly now it'll roll 720° per second it's very pitch sensitive 1° when you're coming in on the is will give you 900 ft per minute rate of descent we had no autopilots you don't train Air Force pilots you know to uh learn how to at least initially uh punch numbers into an autopilot so it was all hand flying hand flying cross country hand flying anywhere and uh this is the uh uh interesting little yaw vean there uh we we typically had one that extended way out with uh both yaw and pitch called a yap's head yaw and Pitch uh and they've got a y' there obviously he's been going backwards and uh it's got a uh GPS antenna that we did not have and that's cooling for the avionics and all sorts oh it's got a it's got a uh a gun type site up there that's kind kind of interesting anyway a really nice fun aircraft to fly there are two there are two ways to get in this canopy into the aircraft this is quick where you pull it jettison that's the other handles that you can use to raise and lower it at the end of the day the seat here of course is much more Superior than what I had we were 120 knots on the deck that would work and now they're z z and of course this is totally different than what I'm used to on the C Model A lot of this stuff is the same uh but oh the engine instruments are all different oh the Boost pumps are the same Oxygen's the same yeah but they got all these little buttons here to push oh they have a a heads up display we didn't have before and this multi-function thing uh Rudder Pedal Pull do adjust they had that the stick looks to be the same yep that D and this that that adjusts the git there uh don't as a student put your check there and inflate the G Su didn't invert which kind of can be scary if you've never had inflate before and uh yeah alternate gear extension uh the gear there yeah kept a few things and of course the canopy handle over there and the canopy jettison over there so that still stayed the same here we have a British World War Two Bomber the Lancaster I actually had my boss at cesna flight test on the prop side a guy named Doug Hazelwood absolutely wonderful individual who unfortunately has since passed away but he flew the lancasters and uh now you you talk about an interesting tail dragger conventional gear um I guess you could use differential thrust to help steer look at those split flaps of course the garies the bom way this is the last call very beautiful engine it interactive gam this is the last call get the free Air Force WRB last call if you want to do the and there's the uh Bombay area last you want to the5 do it now if you want to play the academic do it now cuz we're closing the doors here pretty soon and of course your F16 has been around forever I was involved in the initial flight test of that back in the uh 70s we did a lot of test missions I flew as lead uh so they could evaluate the Sid stick controller and formation and uh was told I was being too smooth to rough it up a little bit so they could actually uh uh see how the fly controls work better um so I I I heated that and was able to fly poorly and give them better test uh data so that's what I did I fed interesting split flaps lift and a lot of drag kind of like my Q model 310 and of course the uh the split tails here the thing about being the guy in the AF gun that has to be a if you're in turbulence or that or aggressive maneuvering that's got to be a really uncomfortable will place to operate and that is the Lancaster exactly