I did see another video of this same plane landing at OSH a couple days earlier. It was a really hard landing! This plane is meant to be landed flat with all three wheels touching down at about the same time. The video I saw shows it flaring and then stalling from a foot or two off the runway. This is a sturdy old bird but too many landings like that will take a toll.
Yea, it was the anticipation of the touchdown that caused the nose gear to be sideways on short final.Yep that one... That was brutal!!!
It is the same type of touch down that flipped the nose gear up and out of action....
Interesting. I know very little about the A-26, but in the B-25 you most definitely don't want to land like that video. You hold the nose off as long as possible.There is an old training film from WWII on flying the A-26 that I've seen on Youtube that demonstrates the proper technique for landing this plane. You basically fly it right down into ground effect and let the plane settle onto the runway without any discernable flare. It's one of the few tricycle gear planes that you land 3-point. When done right, it's a thing of beauty!