[Reaganesque]

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[JohnBrowdie]

index for later

[Retired Greyhound]

Those guys are another breed.

My father-in-law was a deck chief and has some crazy stories. Lot of his buddies perished in missed landings.

[magslinger]

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[dila813]

I saw this stuff all the time, saw an F18 fly right into the back of the Amb Linc twice on the same night. All pilots lived. It happens so fast you don’t even know if they are alive till you find them in the water.

this is a common occurrence. but these accidents are secret as is how many mines remain floating in the Persian Gulf.

[Bad Jack Bauer]

That was one of the most harrowing things I have ever seen.

[OBXWanderer]

Me thinks Ensign Clapp didn’t stay brownbar very long....

[ml/nj]

Strikes me as a pretty stupid exercise.

ML/NJ

[AFreeBird]

Damn, rock and roll.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Woman didn’t get to fly :-(

[Leofl]

Serious Pucker factor here!!

[Filo]

for later

[steve86]

I was watching the action and not really listening. Did the last aviator get demoted from flying following that?

[Pan_Yan]

Bump

[andrew2527]

Thanks for the post!

[Fighting Irish]

I worked on this aircraft way back when you had to work on drawings in a secure room, no windows, sign in and sign out. It was an amazing aircraft then and it is now .... and these aviators are all hard core. Made me just a bit proud and terrified watching these vids. Thanks for posting!

[Fighting Irish]

I worked on this aircraft way back when you had to work on drawings in a secure room, no windows, sign in and sign out. It was an amazing aircraft then and it is now .... and these aviators are all hard core. Made me just a bit proud and terrified watching these vids. Thanks for posting!

[Walkingfeather]

captivating !

[RVN Airplane Driver]

Another of life’s unfair adventures....I got the same flight pay trying to find 10,000 ft of concrete as those boys got landing on that rolling pitching deck. My hat’s off to them...

[tanknetter]

One of the things I find interesting is how they talk, at the end of the first clip, about needing to hold off on a cat shot until the deck is starting to pitch up ... otherwise they'd be shooting planes straight into the water. Many of the cat shot clips show this, as well.

Post-RCOH, Nimitz is pushing 100,000 tons, if not a bit over. Anyone else ever see the old footage of the Doolittle Raiders launching in their B-25s from the deck of the ~22,000 ton USS Hornet? The timing of the deck runs, in very rough seas, was literally causing the Mitchells to be (or at least look like) flung up into the air. In some cases you'd see the B-25 get flung up, then drop down (significantly) towards the water before struggling to regain altitude. It was amazing that none of the Raiders went into the drink while launching, although some came pretty close. Worse was Ted Lawson, who felt his "Ruptured Duck" getting moved around on the Hornet's deck by the high winds while waiting for the pitch-up during the engine run-up and actually raised his flaps ... forgetting to lower them prior to commencing his deck run.