Crosswind Landing Testing

Boeing 747 SP and Boeing 777

http://photos.imageevent.com/evorg/space/Crosswind.wmv
from JoeUser Forums
This little video shows Boeing verifying the crosswind landing limits on the 777 and the 747SP.

The engineers design the landing gear system, goes up for a design review, gets manufactured, the maintenance people install it, ops check it, then jack and retract the system; but then Boeing test crews have to actually prove the design. Before the landing gear sideload limits gets etched in stone in the -1 flight manual.

So they sneak off to Brazil to do these tests at a certain remote BAF base famous for its continual atrocious crosswinds...

This is some good piloting by the test pilots in getting these planes down. For some people it looks totally unnatural for an aircraft that size doing that, and for others it’s a thing of beauty.

If you haven't seen these it's pretty cool to watch planes of this size crabbing in on a landing.
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
I get nothing but an audio track in the WMV file.
Where's the video? Did I miss something?
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
I get nothing but an audio track in the WMV file.
Where's the video? Did I miss something?
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The video plays just fine for me
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

This video is very impressive. After having flown Boeing aircraft commercially for many years, I knew that the aircraft were strong but this certainly proves that point. It must be why they are called "Test Pilots."

Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
I experienced a landing like the last one on this video. It was on a British Airways flight (don't know what kind of plane) landing on a very windy day in Paris in 2003. I was pretty sure we were all going to die. Don't know about anyone else, but I got a lot closer to the Lord that day!