If the ship got hit by a roque wave I could see it possibly taking out an airplane. I was stationed on aircraft carrier many moons ago. The ship got caught in some bad seas. We didn’t lose any aircraft, but the catwalks and antennas near the bow were all mangled...
Next Top gun sequel: Where my plane??
A tied down plane got washed off an elevator aboard the USS Midway (IIRC) some years back.
Whenever I had to ride brakes in a plane on the elevator in rough weather, I thought about it.
“If the ship got hit by a roque wave I could see it possibly taking out an airplane. I was stationed on aircraft carrier many moons ago. The ship got caught in some bad seas. We didn’t lose any aircraft, but the catwalks and antennas near the bow were all mangled...”
I was an ET on an AFS. We were somewhere out in the middle of the Pacific near a tropical storm and got hit by a rogue wave. I had two big, heavy radios on my workbench. I was sitting on a stool taking a break. The ship very unexpectedly started listing. It kept going, and going, and going. I was thrown off the stool, through a door, and ended up 20 feet away against the bulkhead (somehow still standing). Both radios hit the deck. I was very lucky not to end up at Captain’s Mast for that as procedure was to tie the radios down while they were on the bench. That was a one time experience. Never happened again.