WOWHUH said:
Actually you are incorrect! If you look at the above pic you'll see only one set of tires in the middle of the fuselage. The chase cars actually connect wing wheels for landing. The cars have to be fast to catch the aircraft and hook the wheels so the aircraft doesn't fall over and hit the wing.
They do also communicate with the pilot to help with the landing.
Not true, your not going to have two cars pulling up to a plane and installing wheels from the time it lands to the time it stops, just not going to happen
If you look on the tips of the wings you will see they have a bit of something sticking down, this is designed to scrap the ground on landing, When it takes off it has a lot of fuel in the wings, when it lands it's wings are for the most part emtpy, and don't weigh a lot.
The chase cars are there for a few reasons, On take off, they talk to the pilot and direct them due to the low visibility, and extremely long wings. they also check the runway for debris. They then pick up the 'landing' gear that are dropped off the wings on take off.
On landing they call out the height off the runway to the pilot, since they have to land horizontally instead of nose up like other planes.
There are other things they do, but that is the majority.
