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Title: Cable snaps on USS Eisenhower during landing
Post by: Atilla60 on July 09, 2016, 12:42:37 PM
From the comment section:
Quotef you ever wondered why carrier pilots increase thrust when they hit the deck for a landing, that right there is your answer


Title: Re: Cable snaps on USS Eisenhower during landing
Post by: mirth on July 09, 2016, 12:48:23 PM
 :o
Title: Re: Cable snaps on USS Eisenhower during landing
Post by: bob48 on July 09, 2016, 01:01:46 PM
Bloody hell - thought he was a goner for sure!
Title: Re: Cable snaps on USS Eisenhower during landing
Post by: Con on July 09, 2016, 01:14:10 PM
Just read a very good book all about US naval aviation in the 60s called Triple Sticks

Very good details on why and what happens in these situation (basically it calls for a replacement set of pants)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NF2V2ZC/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Con
Title: Re: Cable snaps on USS Eisenhower during landing
Post by: steve58 on July 09, 2016, 01:57:33 PM
Quote from: bob48 on July 09, 2016, 01:01:46 PM
Bloody hell - thought he was a goner for sure!

Ditto

Here's hoping none of the deck crew got caught by that flying cable! :o
Title: Re: Cable snaps on USS Eisenhower during landing
Post by: Sir Slash on July 09, 2016, 01:59:36 PM
Alert the Washroom! Whole load of shitty drawers on the way!
Title: Re: Cable snaps on USS Eisenhower during landing
Post by: bbmike on July 09, 2016, 02:08:39 PM
Wow! You're right, the pilot must be ready for that to happen.  :o
Title: Re: Cable snaps on USS Eisenhower during landing
Post by: Staggerwing on July 09, 2016, 02:43:37 PM
You got to wonder, if the bow and flight deck were falling instead of rising would the plane have made it? 
Title: Re: Cable snaps on USS Eisenhower during landing
Post by: besilarius on July 09, 2016, 03:52:34 PM
Don't know if it is still active, but in the 30s, naval aviators gleefully welcomed new pilots into the "Order of the Diaper".
Ultimately, no matter how many traps you performed successfully, every pilot who lands on a carrier joins the Order.
Title: Re: Cable snaps on USS Eisenhower during landing
Post by: besilarius on July 09, 2016, 05:43:13 PM
http://pilotonline.com/news/military/local/navy-human-error-to-blame-for-march-cable-break-aboard/article_c4675c54-6cdc-5882-867a-68f961145c9d.html

Never trust a sailor.
Title: Re: Cable snaps on USS Eisenhower during landing
Post by: Dammit Carl! on July 11, 2016, 08:44:24 AM
Wow.
Title: Re: Cable snaps on USS Eisenhower during landing
Post by: steve58 on August 15, 2016, 02:32:13 PM
Pilots awarded Armed Forces' Air Medal for saving plane after cable snapped (http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/08/15/watch-navy-pilots-save-plane-after-it-falls-off-carrier.html)
Title: Re: Cable snaps on USS Eisenhower during landing
Post by: Atilla60 on August 15, 2016, 03:39:45 PM
Quote from: steve58 on August 15, 2016, 02:32:13 PM
Pilots awarded Armed Forces' Air Medal for saving plane after cable snapped (http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/08/15/watch-navy-pilots-save-plane-after-it-falls-off-carrier.html)

QuoteThe Navy awarded three pilots-- Lt. Cmdr. Thomas Browning, Lt. Cmdr. Kellen Smith, and Lt. Matthew Halliwell-- from that plane the Armed Forces' Air Medal in a ceremony aboard the Eisenhower this month.
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Title: Re: Cable snaps on USS Eisenhower during landing
Post by: DoctorQuest on August 15, 2016, 04:14:30 PM
Glad it was no worse than this. Someone could have been killed.

"Eight sailors suffered a variety of injuries, including a fractured ankle, wrist, pelvis and legs. One sailor received skull and facial fractures while another suffered a possible traumatic brain injury."
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