Posted on Dec 12, 2015
Have you ever seen a semi-submersible aircraft?
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Plane Flying Into A Wave Off Carrier Deck!
plane fly into wave
"That was the USS Ticonderoga, CVS 14. That was an S-2E from squadron VS-38. If you look at the background seas, they are relatively calm. When the launch officer launches a plane he watches for the bow to hit bottom, and that way the plane will be launched as the bow comes up.
In this case, a ROUGE wave caught the plane and it only happens once in a great while, but once is too many if you are the pilot. They came out of it damp and shaken, but that is a testament to a great engine, the Wright R1820."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poy2F9HdWqc
In this case, a ROUGE wave caught the plane and it only happens once in a great while, but once is too many if you are the pilot. They came out of it damp and shaken, but that is a testament to a great engine, the Wright R1820."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poy2F9HdWqc
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Capt Seid Waddell, Two questions:
1.) Did the aviator qual for Dolphins? Or, the SWO pin?
2.) Would the new warfare designator pin be worn below the Gold Wings? Or on the pocket flap?
A-Freakin-Mazing!
1.) Did the aviator qual for Dolphins? Or, the SWO pin?
2.) Would the new warfare designator pin be worn below the Gold Wings? Or on the pocket flap?
A-Freakin-Mazing!
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Capt Seid Waddell
Capt Mark Strobl, good questions all, but this AF type has no answers. The AF has no submersible aircraft that ever fly again to the best of my knowledge.
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Capt Mark Strobl
Capt Seid Waddell - Fair enough. I suppose most aircraft only get ONE water landing anyway!
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SN Greg Wright
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Capt Seid Waddell - Here's some that weren't as lucky! (and some that were.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-cvv8SVhHA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-cvv8SVhHA
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Capt Seid Waddell
This is the view from the cockpit of a night trap aboard a Carrier. it takes a special person and training to accomplish this. Think of how much harder this ...
SN Greg Wright, this is the one that has a great deal of pucker factor for me. It makes me appreciate what carrier pilots do on a day to day basis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xiOJZ9zVMQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xiOJZ9zVMQ
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WOW and WOW................. I wonder what the pucker factor rating was at for the Air crew going through that? On the flip side they can for the rest of their lives remember "What a Ride".
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