britfrog 180 Posted July 3, 2014 Report Share Posted July 3, 2014 I have always admired the precision of navy flyers and the orchestrated chess moves on aicraft carrier ops this is pretty cool, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7nKtEZZT48 2 Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted July 3, 2014 Report Share Posted July 3, 2014 awesome! Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,315 Posted July 3, 2014 Report Share Posted July 3, 2014 Those guys are good. Oorah Link to post Share on other sites
hifly 925 Posted July 4, 2014 Report Share Posted July 4, 2014 What gets me is there was no one on the flight deck to guide him onto the.. er stool. Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted July 4, 2014 Report Share Posted July 4, 2014 I think the placement of the stool allows him to just use the same visual cues as he normally would to land on one of the normal pad locations. This whole procedure was obviously thought out well ahead of time and is not a jury-rig fix that was conjured up on the fly. The availability of the stool on the ship gives testimony to that. In a way it was just a routine landing with a less-springy nose gear. John Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,315 Posted July 4, 2014 Report Share Posted July 4, 2014 What gets me is there was no one on the flight deck to guide him onto the.. er stool. Leave it in the hands of the lineup lighting system. I know I wouldn't want to be on the deck if something did go wrong. Link to post Share on other sites
hifly 925 Posted July 4, 2014 Report Share Posted July 4, 2014 Yeah, I guess I've seen too many images of crouching, jet blasted deck crews purposely pointing in the general direction the plane is to go when being catapulted off. Or guys with ping pong bats franticly waving them down. That pilot was cool but I wonder if he thought. Jeez, where is everyone? I'm landing on the Mary Celeste. Link to post Share on other sites
dodgy-alan 1,587 Posted July 4, 2014 Report Share Posted July 4, 2014 Superb bit of flying! Link to post Share on other sites
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