2025 Richard Collins Writing Prize Runner-Up: Tailstrikes and Tiedowns
Air Facts
MARCH 26, 2025
Those familiar phrases more right rudder, watch your airspeed, flare, flare, flare! Time seemed to freeze as I floated in ground effect. The aircraft had sustained little damage the tail tie-down was knocked off and no one had been hurt. There in his hand, hung elegantly from a necklace chain, was the tail tie-down.
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