What happened to getting back to the cars?

[Grumpaw]

They had to because the airplane is so tail heavy. Even with ballast in the nose, I can’t tell you how many times I saw 727s come into a gate pogo sticking on the nose gear.

Roseanne and Rosie sitting in the back, maybe ???

Grumpaw

 

[Snoranger]

Roseanne and Rosie sitting in the back, maybe ???

Grumpaw

 

[sgtsandman]

Roseanne and Rosie sitting in the back, maybe ???

Grumpaw

I doubt either one of them would accept a seat in coach, let alone all the way in the back of the plane. Assuming they demeaned themselve enough to fly commercially. LOL

 

[Grumpaw]

I doubt either one of them would accept a seat in coach, let alone all the way in the back of the plane. Assuming they demeaned themselve enough to fly commercially. LOL

Yeah, BUT, thats a cargo plane, and since neither one of them qualifies as "human", that would make them "cargo"....right ???

Grumpaw

 

[acsnowrider]

Anyone remember "the Gumball Rally" Always enjoyed watching that one!

 

[sgtsandman]

Yeah, BUT, thats a cargo plane, and since neither one of them qualifies as "human", that would make them "cargo"....right ???

Grumpaw

They are now. Back then, they were still passenger aircraft. Back in the Allegheny Airlines - early USAir days.

 

[cbxer55]

They had to because the airplane is so tail heavy. Even with ballast in the nose, I can’t tell you how many times I saw 727s come into a gate pogo sticking on the nose gear.

It's more the main landing gear is too far forward than the aircraft tail heavy. Flying a tail heavy aircraft is a very dangerous situation and not recommended at all. Very unstable. But if the main landing gear on a tricycle gear aircraft is too far forward, too close to the center-of-gravity, rather than somewhat further behind the cg, the plane will tend to keep trying to put the tail on the ground, like a tail-dragger aircraft.

Likewise, a tail-dragger aircraft with the main gear mounted too far back will tend to keep trying to plant the nose on the ground.