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Crosswind Landings: Which Pilot Handled It Best?

Watch multiple aircraft perform crosswind landings as pilots use the “crab” technique to keep control in strong winds. This ...
The Aviationist

All You Need To Know About The B-52 Stratofortress Bomber’s Unique Swiveling Landing Gear

The U.S. Air Force’s iconic B-52 bomber was ingeniously designed with landing gear that can be positioned up to 20 degrees left or right of the centerline for both takeoff and landing. A crabbed ...
Yahoo

Pilot pulls off extraordinary ‘crabbing’ plane landing at Heathrow during Storm Darragh

A live aviation streamer was left shocked by a pilot’s expert landing at London Heathrow amid the strong Storm Darragh winds. YouTuber Big Jet TV was filming various planes on approach to Heathrow on ...
Flying

There’s an Art to Making Crosswind Landings

The article discusses two main techniques for handling crosswind landings: the slip method (lowering the upwind wing and using rudder) and the crab method (maintaining a crab angle until near ...
WDBJ

“Pretty amazing technology.” Safety system stops plane from rolling onto busy road after hard landing

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - In Roanoke, 53 passengers are shaken up, but safe after a plane went off a runway Wednesday night. State troopers say it could’ve have been much worse, though, had it not been ...