Would anyone care to share a few pictures of a CVN in a bad storm? Huge seas with 25ft.+ waves? I don't know why, call it a fetish I guess, but I've been trying to find a picture like that for a long while. I imagine they would be quite rare since well, launching/landing planes in a storm doesn't sound safe and you all probably wisely avoid them (speculation of course). Seems like AW would be a good place to ask, but then again, like every new guy on here I've found out the hard way that what may seem like a decent enough question can actually turn out not to be; so profuse apologies in advance. (Any out there even close to included pic?)
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Stormy Carrier pics?
- Thread starter Dingobat
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HOLY SH!T
Funny that "A-6" has 2 radial engines.
Not "rare", but we still pride ourselves on all-WX ops, right??? But uncomfortable, nonetheless ....
I don't have any pictures, but we launched and recovered in the Sea of Japan and on the edge of Typhoons further south under those conditions ... shooting the birds on the "up" movement of the deck and recovering with MOVLAS as the lens was out of limits due to deck movement; i.e., pitching, rolling, and heaving.
Sometimes it got so bad it was basically the LSO saying: ..." don't watch the ball, don't chase the deck, just listen to me" ...
It works ...
I think the video we just watched was a response to a "failed A-6 launch".
Either those guys were flying the most advanced submarine in the world, or they're the luckiest pilots I've ever seen. Great find :icon_grin
Harrier Dude
Living the dream
I've actually met the pilot of that S-2 that flew through the wave. His son flys Harriers. What a wild story.
Try this video if you like old school footage. Particularly A-4 footage....
Try this video if you like old school footage. Particularly A-4 footage....
Same-o, same-o .... this short clip is in my time frame, I wish there were more available out there --- the guys at the end of the clip returning to MC were contemporaries of mine. I particularly remember the loud mouthed blond guy ....
Here's an article that kind of goes with the carrier mishap thread, but at the end talks about an unfortunate incident where some folks were wiped off the Ike by some kind of rogue wave.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEEDB1138F936A35752C1A96F948260
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEEDB1138F936A35752C1A96F948260
This clip of HORNET (*sigh* why don't we name carriers like that anymore -- instead of naming 'em for politicians and bureaucrats???) shows an approximation of the deck movement I was referring to in post #6 on this thread --- you can see why the timing of the cat shot was critical -- don't want to shoot someone into the water on a "down deck" ....
Also, imagine that the bow shot is in the clip is the stern -- the ramp area --- now imagine trying to land on it. You could fly a good "groove" pass all the way down only to have the deck fall out from beneath you and off you go -- BOLTER or WAVEOFF ..... by the same token, you could land on an "up deck" and break an airplane. Wouldn't be the first time .....