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Cable snaps on USS Eisenhower during landing
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| 7-8-2016
Posted on 07/09/2016 8:30:40 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-EHwYOfY94
Hope the pilot has some extra underwear around.
TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: aviation; usnavy
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To: Snickering Hound
To: Snickering Hound
Best comment from the video... "Took so long to pull up because the pilots balls were weighing the plane down."
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posted on
07/09/2016 8:32:50 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Snickering Hound
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posted on
07/09/2016 8:33:19 AM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: Snickering Hound
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posted on
07/09/2016 8:35:24 AM PDT
by
GBA
(Here in the matrix, life is but a dream.)
To: Snickering Hound
Pilots first thought....Eject??...my a**.
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To: Snickering Hound
That is why the pilot goes to full power the instant he feels the wheels hit the deck.
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posted on
07/09/2016 8:40:37 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
To: Sacajaweau
The E-2 Hawkeye doesn’t have ejection seats.
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07/09/2016 8:42:35 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
To: GBA
One of those broken cables snapping around the deck can be beyond lethal. Very dangerous place to be, not only for the pilot.
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07/09/2016 8:44:11 AM PDT
by
Mouton
(The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Then that was not his first thought.
To: Snickering Hound
Had not seen that one from March this year. Looks like they had the weight set low or he would not have gotten that far with the cable still paying out?
Hard to believe he could recover from an airspeed that low. Had to be clipping waves.
I also can’t imagine that the 8 sailors injured had minor injuries. That cable had a long way to recoil.
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posted on
07/09/2016 8:45:32 AM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
To: Snickering Hound
Wonder if the supplier is substituting Chinese made cables. Or maybe they don’t even know. Counterfeit certified Chinese made aircraft grade bolts even made it onto the Space Shuttle according to published accounts.
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posted on
07/09/2016 8:46:44 AM PDT
by
r_barton
(GO TRUMP!!!)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Well that certainly affects the decision to eject.
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07/09/2016 8:47:16 AM PDT
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corkoman
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To: dfwgator
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07/09/2016 8:48:41 AM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom yes I know john 3:16)
To: Sequoyah101
You can see the water coming off the bottom of the plane as it rises back up. He clipped the waves.
Pucker factor of 10.
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07/09/2016 8:48:55 AM PDT
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headstamp 2
(Fear is the mind killer.)
To: r_barton
The Chinese cables are made of hemp and rubber. LOL
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07/09/2016 8:49:39 AM PDT
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headstamp 2
(Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Snickering Hound
Heard it happened to an F4 Pilot in ‘nam”, could be heard over radio as he came back in view from under deck “Ok God, Ive got it now!”
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posted on
07/09/2016 8:50:45 AM PDT
by
Airwinger
( A Militia Of One (Semper Fi))
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