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Air Force awards A-10 pilot for skillfully belly landing her plane without landing gear after 'catas
« on: May 11, 2021, 11:36:54 am »
Air Force awards A-10 pilot for skillfully belly landing her plane without landing gear after 'catastrophic' failure
Ryan Pickrell
 
An A-10C Thunderbolt II sits on the runway after making an emergency landing April 7, 2020 at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia
An A-10 on the runway after an emergency landing at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia, April 7, 2020. US Air Force photo by Andrea Jenkins

    Capt. Taylor Bye safely landed an A-10 with no canopy and inoperable landing gear last year.

    She was recently awarded the Air Combat Command Airmanship Award for her skillful flying.

    Her achievement follows a similar incident in 2017, for which a National Guard pilot was awarded.
   

The US Air Force awarded a fighter pilot for skillfully landing a damaged aircraft without a cockpit canopy or working landing gear after what the service described as a "catastrophic" failure.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-pilot-awarded-for-a-10-landing-after-catastrophic-failure-2021-5
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Offline PeteS in CA

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Re: Air Force awards A-10 pilot for skillfully belly landing her plane without landing gear after 'c
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2021, 03:11:14 pm »
Without diminishing in the least the pilot's skill, "belly landing" is not accurate. One of the features of the A-10 is that it can land gear-up, because the landing gear does not fully retract. The plane can still land on its tires. I guess Ryan Pickrell hasn't understood pictures such as:


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Re: Air Force awards A-10 pilot for skillfully belly landing her plane without landing gear after 'c
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2021, 05:34:03 pm »
Looks like she did a fine job. Why no DFC?
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