A-26 Nose gear failure, Oshkosh

[Matt Gunsch]

Looks like Tim is having a bad year with his A-26, just saw pictures of it standing on it's nose at Oshkosh

[mike furline]

http://oppositelock.kinja.com/a-26-inva ... 1784287532

[ChrisK48]

Photos of the actual landing.

https://jeremyd.smugmug.com/Airplanes/E ... /i-tbSmT8g

[Scooby]

Yes, I witnessed this too. I arrived very early and left late.

Not knowing anyone here I must have been close to a few of you judging by the angles of the QF-4 shots.

[cooper9411]

Thankfully everyone is OK. Don't think they'll make it to Thunder!

[Jeremy S]

darn... It'll be fixed. I'm glad everyone walked away from this incident.

Bad way to start the week at Oshkosh

[CraigQ]

What a bummer for sure. The recent issue of the EAA WoA magazine featured Tim and the '26 on the cover and feature article. Great news no one was injured, aircraft can be repaired.

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[Robbie Stuart]

Sure am sorry to see that beautiful airplane get damaged, but just glad everyone is OK.
Robbie

[Dave Hadfield]

Expensive. 2 R-2800s, 2 props, and fuselage and gear repair.

And a seat cushion.

Dave

[lmritger]

Power was off according to some posts I've seen elsewhere, so he may not need a pair of engines... six new blades, a bunch of sheet metal, and whatever gubbin caused the nose gear extension failure, that's a definite. Possibly a new nosewheel as well (I wonder if that's what caused the brief fire- is the wheel magnesium?)

Excellent work on the part of Tim and the crew to get it down as safely and gingerly as possible. Sucks to see that pretty airplane all bunged up, but as has already been pointed out, it's just metal, and metal can be fixed. The most important thing is that the people are OK.

Let's hope this is the only hiccup experienced by the fine folks up at Oshkosh this week.

Lynn

[kmiles]

Any indication that they were aware of the problem before landing? Can see in the video that the nose wheel looks turned during the final approach. Would think under normal situations the tower would have told them, but not sure with all the activity there at Oshkosh this week if the tower would notice and notify them of something like that. They did not appear to hold the nose off as long as possible as I think they would if they were aware of the issue. Would not have helped much in the end unless they knew enough in advance and were able to try to cycle the gear before landing.

PS - Never mind about the knowing thing. Read another article that said they declared an emergency, so they were aware of the issue. Guessing they would have gone through all options before landing as long as they had the fuel to do so.

[Dave Hadfield]

I greatly doubt it. Generally, if metal props hit solid ground, the engine has to be taken apart to inspect the gear-case, crank, and so on. Even if they were at idle.

Where you get a "let" on this is if the blades are wood, like in a Spit or Hurri.

Dave

[Warbird Kid]

Is that even a possibility? Someone making wooden H&S Props? Probably would be helpful in this case.

BTW: I am so sorry to see this beautiful 26 pranged like this. Kudos to John and Tim for the skilled landing. Metal can be replaced / fixed. Human lives not so much. Glad everything came out as well as it could.

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[Randy Haskin]

Bravo Zulu to John Lane for the safe landing.

[b29flteng]

Back about 1973, at Oshkosh, an A-26 had the nose gear start to fold up on landing, the pilot applied power, went around the pattern and got the gear locked down. After engine shutdown all of the prop blades had about the last inch of blade curled slightly.