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ironpony said:
I worked out at Wright Pat and they have some really neat equipment out there. The landing gear test facility was interesting to say the least. They had equipment that could simulate the weight of a plane landing while spinning the tire to over 300MPH under full load.

I was there right after Eric Medellin was killed and Goodyear brought in mounted slicks and they spun them up under load till they exploded.
Absolutely crazy stuff, they had a tower they would mount landing gear to, load it up with hundred thousand pounds and drop it 3 stories to see what would happen.
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Passed by it every time going into Dayton, cannot tell you how many planes ignored the Military only beacon and tried to land there thinking it was Dayton and not familiar with the Military Beacon. Military is green with two white flashes, Civilian is green with a single white flash.

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BTW, what did you think of the Air Force Museum while you were there? I have recommended it in several posts here as a "Bucket List" item.
 
Racenutz2 said:
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The Radomes are fiberglass and damage pretty easily, bird strikes are usually pretty violent because of the closing speeds. Mostly because of birds and partly to give ATC time to vector all the flights we are restricted to 250 below 10,000. Usually only Condors can fly above that restriction.
 
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