BW>>Greetings, All!
BW>>In FLYING magazine, there was an article about a DC-9 that
BW>>landed
BW>>gear up and took 7000 feet to come to a stop.  My question is:  How
BW>>much runway would it have taken to stop if there were wheels
BW>>underneath?
 > Bill, we used to go into 4800-5000 ft Army strips in the
 > DC9-32F.  We had brakes plus reverse and also put it on the
 > numbers.  They were probably fast, worried about the touch
 > down, probably had less than full flaps, no drag, floated and
 > 7,000ft was the measured distance when it was all through.  Of
 > course you know it is variable totally with weight, density
 > altitude, wind etc.  Actually a very good short field airplane
 > with everything working.
That Flying Tigers 707 that mistakenly landed on an Army chopper strip just 
south of the DaNang main runway probably holds the record for short field 
work :-)  Anyone remember that?  1969, I believe.  I understand the Huey that 
was hovering over the little strip at the time got quite a shock when the 
door gunner cleared to the rear and reported a 707 on short final :-)
(Yeah, I understand they _did_ get it out again, on its own steam too .. but 
they really had to lighten the aircraft, minimum fuel, etc.)
Wish I'd kept the Stars & Stripes clippings of that, that someone had gotten 
a film of it, or whatever.  Real aviation history :-)
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