The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery, Troisième partie: la vengeance!

[TacticalTater]

I thought it might be the launch bridle they used to use.

How did recovery if the bridle work? Does it float somehow or is it a use it and leave it?

Does the carrier steam over it?

 

[Griz882]

How did recovery if the bridle work? Does it float somehow or is it a use it and leave it?

Does the carrier steam over it?

Normally they were recovered by one to the two “prongs” you used to see at the end of a carrier launch ramp. Basically the bridle fell into a net. The bridles are gone and so are the prongs. I’m not sure what carrier was the last to have them.

 

[jmcquate]

I think the Midway was the last one to have F-4s in her airwing.

 

[Griz882]

I think the Midway was the last one to have F-4s in her airwing.

Got off my ass and did some research. Surprisingly, the last carrier with bridal catchers is the Carl Vinson. They have since been removed.

 

[taxi1]

I think the Midway was the last one to have F-4s in her airwing.

T2 Buckeyes used bridles.

 

[zipmartin]

Nimitz was the last to be built with 2 bridle arresters. Eisenhower and Vinson were built with only one, on the starboard bow catapult.

 

[jmcquate]

Are the shuttles the same for bridals and launch bars?

 

[taxi1]

Are the shuttles the same for bridals and launch bars?

Picturing figure in white dress cast into the void.

 

[wink]

I think the Midway was the last one to have F-4s in her airwing

Scooters used bridals as well. So as long as A-4s went to the boat for advanced CQ a carrier had to be equipped.

 

[ea6bflyr]

Got off my ass and did some research. Surprisingly, the last carrier built with bridal catchers was the Carl Vinson. They have since been removed. (early 2000)

FIFY. The last carrier to have them was the Enterprise. She decommissioned with them intact in Dec of 2012.

 

[ea6bflyr]

Are the shuttles the same for bridals and launch bars?

Yes, they started using launch bars in 1962 on the E-2.

 

[Llarry]

Early helo ops on surface combatants could be a bit hairy. Here's a Sikorsky HO3S and the USS Albany (CA 123) in 1951.

 

[hlg6016]

And then the safety brief was born.

 

[Griz882]

And then the safety brief was born.

I find the wearing of covers that can easily fly off to be a refreshing idea.

 

[JTS11]

I truly don't know where the cockpit starts and ends from this pic. The blades do seem coned up, which means they have no more liftt to give.

As @hlg6016 notes, would have liked to see more cranial usage there on the deck.. 😃