ping...Thanks Sukhoi for the daily doses of “plane porn” you post.
From a former air cadet,
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Unladen like that, might be able to launch off a flat deck carrier and no catapult? of course, what good what do.
ping...It’s got pretty good pick-up.
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Night time practice, eh!
Reminds me of a conversation I had with an ex-pilot. He was telling me about some Aircraft Carrier war games, and mentioned that the sun was setting so they suspended the exercise until the next day.
I said, “Wait a minute; are you telling me that you don’t take off from and land on the carrier at night? This is a war game, and wars get fought at night too.”
He smiled at me like I was ignorant of just how scary it is to land on a carrier, even in the day time: “In war, you bleed a lot too, but you don’t practice bleeding.”