Pitching seas landings on a carrier.

[CertInsaneC5]

Holy hell. No way could I do this. My already high respect for our guys in uniform just went up a few notches.


YouTube - PBS: Carrier - Landing on a Pitching Deck Pt. 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=4gGMI8d3vLs)


YouTube - PBS: Carrier - Landing on a Pitching Deck Pt. 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=S0yj70QbBzg)

[Datawiz]

Holy hell. No way could I do this. My already high respect for our guys in uniform just went up a few notches.


YouTube - PBS: Carrier - Landing on a Pitching Deck Pt. 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=4gGMI8d3vLs)


YouTube - PBS: Carrier - Landing on a Pitching Deck Pt. 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=S0yj70QbBzg)

Bookmarked for later. Looks cool. Too long. Heading to dinner.

I like short sentences. :rofl:

[CertInsaneC5]

Bookmarked for later. Looks cool. Too long. Heading to dinner.

I like short sentences. :rofl:

What. You. Talkin' bout. Willis.

[mrvette]

Gotta love it, would have paid money to do that....

back when, even today,.....

a life I wished over.....

:cheers::hurray:

[VatorMan]

I used to work on the Glide Slope Indicator (the ball) That's what gave the pilots their deck reference.

[Mark C5]

About 25 years ago some institution did a study and found that night carrier landings were the most stressful job in the world.

[OddBall]

WOW! :Cool: Balls of Brass

[CertInsaneC5]

About 25 years ago some institution did a study and found that night carrier landings were the most stressful job in the world.

I can easily believe that. Add 30+ foot swells and the pucker factor has to be close to a 10.

[jaxgator]

Cool videos. Thanks!

And yeah, those dudes have got some serious gonads.

[C5Nate]

Thats a cute ginger at the radar screen

[GS Ragtop]

Just watched both. We don't pay those guys enough.

[63C2splitter]

That is stressful to watch. Scary stuff. :yesnod:

[mrvette]

Thats a cute ginger at the radar screen

LOTS of memories over that trip, some almost 20 years ago, taking the scouts to Norfolk for a ship tour....

so we saw the Oklahoma City...fast attack sub...and I VERY clearly remember sliding down the hatch some 30' and landing in a lunch room, setting down and facing a sub outline with blacked out areas....and the Lt. there...as the scouts followed along behind.....I looked to my right, there was this Navy Blues dressed female enough to no matter WHAT she wore, all eyes followed....

ROCKET FOX......so I looked at her, asking if she worked on this boat, she says Yes Sir!...I paused and commented, isn't it a bit CLOSE??...

she grins and says her boat was the repair/support boat next door on the dock....she was temp help on OKC fixing towed sonar array....

that was a neat tour....the crap we type on today is maybe not so great by what was on board that sub.....20 years ago.....

neatest freeking color displays I EVER seen...clarity beyond NFL standards...but true, no 60" display....

:hurray::hurray::seeya::cheers:

[Petew1971]

Nice how that one idiot makes a point about tax dollars..

[ChasC5]

:cheers: Got to love those highly skilled Government Workers :cheers:

[C5Nate]

The name on the gingers suit is CLAPP :rofl:

[LATB]

Bookmarked for later. Looks cool. Too long. Heading to dinner.

I like short sentences. :rofl:

:iagree:

[xXBUDXx]

Those people have my utmost respect. :flag:

[Rotorhead]

Those people have my utmost respect. :flag:

Like that means shit.:D

[GRN ENVY]

My buddy is on the Nimitz, he is in one of the green suits, and was out of san diego as the vid said. He has one of the craziest jobs, he launches the planes its pretty cool

[xXBUDXx]

Like that means shit.:D

:beer:

[aj]

One of my pilots hit the round-down on the Shangri-La and didn't make it. The nose of the plane split off and he cartwheeled down the deck. Really nice guy.

[Uncle Pervey]

My crazy assed cousin was a carrier pilot for about 6 years. He said his first night landing earned him "The Order of the Wet Diaper" from pissing his flight suit. :rofl:
He flies for Continental now... so I guess he's still pissing his pants occasionally! :rofl:

[LATB]

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