Monday
Feb072011
Video Proof: Boeing 777 Is Built Ford Tough!
Monday, February 7, 2011 at 02:32PM Wow. In just 26 seconds, this video proves without a doubt that the Boeing 777 is built Ford tough! Seriously, I find it pretty amazing that somewhere around 400,000 pounds of airplane can endure a landing like this... and then presumably be dispatched once again after taking on more fuel and trading beat up pax for fresh new ones (and hopefully a new flight crew too!)
It really says something about the engineering that goes into a modern, heavy airliner - no matter which side of the ocean they come from. Like a Timex, these airliners can take a licking and keep on ticking : )
Reader Comments (8)
If not a new aircrews at least fresh underwear
There is an episode of Airspeed named 'Having the Fish' and in that video Steve's guest, Rob Mark, says that an airliner can take a pretty good slam should a 300 hr private pilot have to land one. Apparently they are pretty tough.
~J~
Eyeno- I'm sayin' (tho I actually chose not to say : )
John C- A pretty good slam indeed. I can't imagine how the pax felt going thru that little rollercoaster of a ride.
Actually, they are in the 650 - 800 thousand pound weight class.
cm- You're talking gross weight, I'm talking about the weight the airplane was likely at in this or any other typical 777 landing. The MAX Landing Weight for the 777 ranges between 445,000 and 575,000 pounds (depending on model) - so again, a typical landing weight as seen in this video is around 400,000 pounds : )
4 loggable landings in one.
seerjfly- true, but probably not worth a week's worth of no sleep and nightmares about having to get a job at McDonald's : )
Well the windsock was pointing straight... down.