Pilots and Flying fans: A380 crosswind test
 

You ain't seen nothing until the largest passenger plane in the world is doing crosswind landing tests... serious 45 degree flying action with rotation on the back wheels only on contact.

Test pilots make x-games athletes look like slackers!

http://www.mbl.is/mblvideo/157.wmv

nice, im checking it out...

... and slow as heck too.

That thing is a beast!

Thanks for the link.

Reminded me of this video. 747 landing at the now closed Hong Kong Kai Tak airport. This was a "typical" landing due to the airport being located in a mountainous cove. :helpme

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/30410/...treme_landing/

:eek7 :eek2 :eek7 :eek2 :eek7

Texas, actually, that was called a "checkerboard approach"... most of the changes of directions were as much for buildings and other man made objects as the mountains themselves. There are some points where the flight path was pretty much right at a building... Now they have a nice airport on a manmade island that is sinking slowly...

I can remember seeing a longer version of that video before, where you could see the "obstacle course" of buildings and towers along the final approach. That's just nuts trying to do that in such a big aircraft. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

The last little bit you coudl almost look eye level into people's apartments. Very weird.