astanley
En-Route
Recently, I was landing in BOS on a 757 - a fun approach, down to about 400' or so - when, just after the reversers deployed, a very loud "WHOOSH", similar to an air compressor dumping the pressure tank all at once, went off.
I was in coach (damn no status airline), sitting to the rear of the wheels / wing (38F, to be exact), and the wx at the time was +RA -FZRA 2C and 22G30
My guess is that it was some part of the anti-skid system, blowing off of the braking surface and/or tire area. The other thought was it was a compressor stall (we ran out a lot of runway on the landing, maybe the PF held the reverse too long?), but I have heard those sound like the engine exploding, nothing like that.
Any clues? It was a fun approach to watch, we hit a strong pocket of shear about 20' above the runway that reminded me of the way I fly
Cheers,
-Andrew
I was in coach (damn no status airline), sitting to the rear of the wheels / wing (38F, to be exact), and the wx at the time was +RA -FZRA 2C and 22G30
My guess is that it was some part of the anti-skid system, blowing off of the braking surface and/or tire area. The other thought was it was a compressor stall (we ran out a lot of runway on the landing, maybe the PF held the reverse too long?), but I have heard those sound like the engine exploding, nothing like that.
Any clues? It was a fun approach to watch, we hit a strong pocket of shear about 20' above the runway that reminded me of the way I fly
Cheers,
-Andrew