Who needs undercarriage anyhow?

[Cap'n Wannabe]

https://youtu.be/LWXndyhO3YM
Story goes he made it back to his home airfield and remembered to lower the gear..

[VH-WAL]

RAAF did that with a Phantom, just buggered the drop tanks that's all

[Cap'n Wannabe]

RAAF did that with a Phantom, just buggered the drop tanks that's all

But did they do a touch and go?

[VH-WAL]

sure did, as they climbed upwind pilot reached down to pull up the gear handle...it was already up.. he asked the backseater..did we just land wheels up? I don't recall his reply. The Pilot was a Sqn Ldr flight commander at 2FTS when I was at Pearce a couple of years after that event, I remember him telling the story at the bar one dining in night

[RayS]

A Mirage managed it at Tullamarine though it had no tanks and did not take off again. Apparently the pilot Cat 5'd the airframe and it never flew again.

[Adam the Akrodude]

That's amazing! How were the props not buggered I wonder? Wonder also what the engine vibration was like after that?

[tor lives]

This may as well have been a "touch and go"
All sorts of reasons why I love this!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igF1X48ddWA
TOR

[davecana]

A Mirage managed it at Tullamarine though it had no tanks and did not take off again. Apparently the pilot Cat 5'd the airframe and it never flew again.

Minor correction Ray, it did have drop tanks.
Matt Wood from ADF serials site posted this photobucket address.
http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb22 ... _00000.jpg