The Great Cats and Dogs on Aircraft Carriers Thread . . . with F-16 insanity!

[VetteMuscle427]

[ the latter was some O-6 shoe getting a free ride in a Tomcat. IIRC, when they went inverted, he reached for something to grab hold of to support himself...he chose poorly. There was an article (with pics) in one of the recent Approach mags.

Here's the picture

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/Croglet/Uh-oh.jpg

Can that be repaired?

 

[EODDave]

Def only one guy in that T-2. Saw the video and got the T-shirt. THere is also a memorial on the Lex in Corpus about the incident. They also showed the video there.

 

[rare21]

As a former LSO (squadron qualified), we study many cases at LSO school with this being one of them. I have the video at home as well. There was only a student flying that T-2. Instructors do not ride in the back during SNA's first time at the boat.

damn, then that poor solo had a double whammy.

 

[FlyingDoc]

anyone have a link to this video, I would like to watch it

 

[Hudson]

You want to watch some one die? When we do it is part of our job. Examples of what not to do, training and all.

 

[FlyingDoc]

Everyone is talking about; just curious.

 

[kmac]

A side note: The younger brother of the student killed at the Lex... died at the Pentagon on 9/11.

 

[Grant]

The videos of USAF F-4 Phantom II's i saw didn't seem to have a tailhook.

Looks like a tailhook. And the Canadian CF-18's have a tailhook too, I linked these pics straight from the RCAF website....

...and...

And about the F-16 on the carrier deal. I'm with the others, doesnt sound right. I'm thinking BS.

 

[Road Program]

Oh yeah...and the struts on an F-16 would probably snap if it did a carrier landing.

 

[SemperFitz]

Here is some info about the C-130 I found via google, take it for what it's worth.

Here's a photo. Pulled it from Code One, and here is part of the story.

"The Hercules earned its sea legs in November 1963 when a Marine KC-130F was flown to a first landing on the USS Forrestal (CVA-59) while the aircraft carrier was underway in the Atlantic. Lt. Jim Flatley and Lt. Cmdr. W. W. “Smokey” Stovall were at the controls and completed a series of twenty-one full-stop landings and takeoffs at increasingly higher weights. Successfully operating a large transport from the deck of a carrier was an amazing feat at the time. More amazingly perhaps, the very same aircraft (Navy Bureau number 149798) is still in operational service forty years later and was flown in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom"

 

[Squid]

the RCAF sure have some cool paint schemes.

 

[VetteMuscle427]

I believe that would be a special theme... I've seen some good US ones. Don't the canadians paint a canopy on the bottom of their hornets? That is a cool idea...

 

[Banjo33]

I think the A-10's paint is shaded on the bottom as well, to make it difficult to determine it's orientation from the ground.

 

[zab1001]

Stop.bringing.back.thread....

 

[Lonestar155]

C-130 on carrier video!

As soon as i came across this clip on youtube.com I had to share this video with those who have not seen it. I almost couldn't believe the C-130 could take off from the flight deck.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q5kQeIQlSLQ&search=navy pilot