I used to work on 'Wasps' and remember flying vividly, as a passenger, going into Auto Gyration mode......that was an experience.......
Never done that but I have been sat in the front of a hercules when its carrying out a tactical landing.
Nige will tell you the gorry details but it involves coming quite high and and just as you get very close to the end of the runway, you stick it on its nose and point it at the runway threshold (only pulling up at the very VERY last rather minute)
I can see the funny side now but at the time, it was just another jockey that I could of given a dry slap too
What you describe there is actually a "Kai San" approach ... named after the place in Vietnam it was designed for ... come in high enough to avoid small arms fire (around 1200 ft normally) until almost above the approach end of the runway which is inside the protected perimeter of the airfield, push over to 60 degrees nose down, aiming 500 ft down the runway, the power is at zero thrust, gear down, flaps 100%, speed touchdown plus 10 knots. As the aircraft descends the speed will rise by about 30 knots, at 50 feet raise the nose to 5 degrees climb, but leave the power at zero thrust, the speed will wash off as the aircraft attempts to climb, at the right speed the pilot just touches down neatly, if it's a short runway select max reverse thrust and hit the brakes .. hard ... 135,000 lbs of aircraft will stop from 120 knots in about 1000 feet.
Teaching points that the student pilots have trouble with initially ... not getting close enough to the runway before pushing over, and "chickening out" and flaring to early.... the first point makes the approach path more shallow and leaves you vulnerable to small arms fire for longer, the second means you are too high with too little power which can lead to a heavy landing.....
There are all sorts of tactical approaches... each for a different scenario... doing them in anger concentrates the mind ... teaching them or practising them actually came under the heading of good fun ....