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View Full Version : Remember the 1974 XF-16 Landing Gear fail on Takeoff?



Hobe Sound AK
11-09-2011, 09:43 PM
I can't find the Footage of it on Youtube, The Plane making the Emergency Crash Landing after circling around the Field, is on youtube, but the Take off is not on the Website. I will never forget this one, As the the XF-16, which was Painted Red White and Blue, is taking off, the Landing Gear Fail, it bounces from Wing to Wing, back and forth very fast. The Pilot then give's it full throttle, and even with the Damaged Landing Gear the XF-16 was able to take off, then it show's a Blue Air Force Ford Station Wagon coming up behind it. When you first see the Footage, you think he is either going to Eject, or the plane will explode. Only the Pilot's Skill saved him. If anyone has the Video which was also in a series of Flight Video's offered for sale on T.V. back in the late 90s, Please post here.

Hobe Sound AK
11-09-2011, 09:55 PM
I did find a bad B&W Copy of it from farther back, hard to see.