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Roger Ball, good and not-so-good questions about the world of "Paddles"

Taking a barrier with a pitching deck at night.......WOW! On a side note, could the crew have ejected with the barrier tangled all over the probe and canopy?
 
jmcquate said:
Taking a barrier with a pitching deck at night.......WOW! On a side note, could the crew have ejected with the barrier tangled all over the probe and canopy?
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with the aircraft giving the crew the sensation that it was going up and over on its side - the "stay with call" was probably VERY useful.

10 knots starboard... for those not in the know and who may think that a 10 knot crosswind isn't much... that's a HUGE freaking burble! 7 know crosswind component is the CV/LSO NATOPS limit - a limit I routinely waived above, but not without getting an okay from the man who owns the joint. The greater the starboard component of the wind - the greater the strength of the burble and the closer to the ramp it occurs. On a night when you need a guy to fly the best pass of his life - 10 knots starboard seems less than ideal. Incredible job by CATCC, pilot and Paddles.
 
Anybody know the backstory for having to catch the barrier? Obviously he had a gear malfunction, but was there more to it?
 
Are those barriers reusable or are they a one trap and toss? There's an interesting video on YouTube showing how they're put together.
 
There are 3 barricades aboard: 1 jet, 1 prop, 1 training. There is one arresting gear engine solely dedicated to the barricade and it's a stripped down version. Barricades are for single use only - then discard.
 
On CVN 76 and newer, the barricade engine is just like the other three and can be placed in action if #3 goes down.
 
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120918-N-FI736-230 ARABIAN SEA (Sept. 18, 2012) Lt. Brendon Kiely, a landing signal officer assigned to the Screwtops of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 123, watches the landing of an F/A-18F Super Hornet from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65). Enterprise is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility conducting maritime security operations, theater security cooperation efforts and support missions as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Scott Pittman/Released)
 
Night barricade - BTDT. Of course fifty-one yers ago there were no flood lights. After five night bolters and an aborted bingo, I was overjoyed. Knew that I wouldn't be boltering again. The morning after, they found my tail hook point in one of the five inch guntubs. It's sitting on my desk right now. The airboss was concerned that the fourteen foot prop on that AD-5W would just cut its way through the barricade. Fortunatly it didn't. It just wound the straps around the prop shaft until the engine seized.
 
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