Re:Airlander 10: Longest aircraft damaged during flight
by mikeash on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @03:25PM
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Bad landings seem to be something that unites almost all pilots. The better ones make bad landings less often, but nobody is immune.
Regarding your bonding moment, one reason I like to fly by myself is so I can swear as much as I want. Part of me is always slightly terrified of having a stuck mic.
Growing up, we flew in my dad's 4-seat (and later 7-seat) Cherokee very frequently and he'd always comment on his landing. He judged his entire flight by how easy it was to identify when the tire made contact with the runway. I remember a flight in high winds that he put down so softly that nobody could tell when we hit the ground. I also remember a landing when I was alone with my dad where we encountered a cross-wind a few seconds before making contact resulting in my slamming my head into the top of the cockpit and yelling "Mother F*cker!" (I was 14, he'd never heard me swear before and it was a bonding moment that he shrugged it off and thought it was totally warranted given the circumstances).