Carrier Landing Videos

[Fly Navy]

These are two videos off the Tailhook Association website taken from the right seat of a S-3B Viking. Enjoy.

http://www.tailhook.org/images/Landing.mpeg

http://www.tailhook.org/images/NightTrap.wmv

 

[mules83]

Nice videos. There is an S-3 here for skyfest in Daytona. I met the guys who flew it in at a bar last night. They took a nice cross country from San Diego. There’s also a t-45 here with an A on the tail (can’t think where’s that from). There are also some air force jets here but I don’t care about them.

 

[BigWorm]

Is that how they really sound, or did somebody record their wife with a hoover vacuum and dub the sound in?

 

[Fezz CB]

DAMN! That looks fvckin cool. I wanna be a pilot now. Ah forget. Ill just be the guy who holds the camera. Freakin awesome clips FLy.

 

[beau]

ah...the night one...the black hole of death as my papi says....nothing but a light in the distance! cant wait for that ****! not! A-Game time!

 

[bunk22]

Flying to the boat at night is like flying into someone's asscrack, it's dark and nasty

 

[mules83]

The T-45 is from Meridian. I know who took it down there.

Tell him that he (or she) needs to do a better break. It was more of a climbing 180 than a break. I still loved it though.

How does a person request to do that type of flight? Do you just ask for it or is just luck of the draw?

 

[Banjo33]

How cute, the S3 has windshield wipers! And look ma, no oxygen mask!

Looks like the burble got him at the ramp too.

 

[mules83]

Hey jboomer, there were supposed to be 4 harriers coming but they were unable to make it. Apparently, they didnt turn in their xcountry forms (?) on time and couldnt get here. The major at the rotc unit (harrier pilot) was pissed. Two Marine hornets came which was good (they did an awesome break)

 

[HooverPilot]

How cute, the S3 has windshield wipers! And look ma, no oxygen mask!

Looks like the burble got him at the ramp too.

I'm sorry, as I flew my 150th night trap in the Hoover, the windshield wiper must have blocked out my view of the tailhook on the harrier. Wait, what is that, you don't even have one? My bad...I didn't mean to embarrass you in front of the other Naval Aviators.

Smilies in effect, I just got home from the hail & bail :icon_tong

 

[mules83]

I dont think i have ever seen a video of a harrier landing at night. I know its a stupid question but do harriers do night operations (landings) out at sea?

 

[skidkid]

Yes Harriers do night boat ops. Im pretty sure they do it on NVGs though. I dont care waht you fly boat ops at night are a scary business.

 

[mules83]

Talking about flybys, here is a cool pic of a 777 doing one at spruce creek airport just south of daytona. It is a fly-in community. The picture looks kind of fake but its real. The 777 was doing its xcountry tour when it first came out and it was heading to miami when it made a fly-by stop at 'the creek'

 

[Brett327]

Talking about flybys, here is a cool pic of a 777 doing one at spruce creek airport just south of daytona. It is a fly-in community. The picture looks kind of fake but its real. The 777 was doing its xcountry tour when it first came out and it was heading to miami when it made a fly-by stop at 'the creek'

What exactly do you think looks fake?

Brett

 

[mules83]

What exactly do you think looks fake?

Brett

I have some friends who think it looks fake. They see the cloud shadow on the ground and see sun light on the airplane. They dont realize that a plane flying might not be in the same shadow that the ground is in.