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Originally Posted by Gate Keeper
Good morning Ian, that was probably the double decker A380 doing a side slip landing into the wind where it lands side-on and turns it’s nose straight into the wind in the last possible moment, with amazing skill and daring from the 2 pilots....eeks!
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Crabbing is what that technique is often called Phil among some in the industry. Another impressive technique is aerodynamic braking which is something which I have seen best performed by the Vulcan V bomber. It is the sit up and beg display as it rolls down the runway nose up and high after landing saving on streaming the brake chute and dropping the nose onto the nosewheel gear close to the end of the runway.
