The Cool Video Thread

[SpazSinbad]

Marine pilot uses stool to land safely after malfunction 28 June 2014 Kate Wiltrout, The Virginian-Pilot

http://hrana.org/news/2014/06/marine-pilot-uses-stool-to-land-safely-after-malfunction/

"...The landing signal officer talked him in, making sure the Harrier was properly aligned before clearing him to land.

He idled the engine. The working landing gear hit the deck. He felt the nose drop.

“It dropped more than I expected,” he said. “But at that point, I was along for the ride.”

Mahoney had landed squarely on the middle of the stool. The nose bounced once and came to rest.

Adrenaline rushing, hands quivering, it took him a moment to remember how to shut off the jet.

“It was a pretty big relief,” he said in the video. “I didn’t realize how much I was shaking until I got out of the aircraft....”"

[SpazSinbad]

SRVL Demo Sim CVF An Easy Runny Way to Deck Land WITHOUT Arresting....  

Shipborne Rolling Vertical Landing is the 'other' way perhaps that the UK F-35Bs will get onboard with a Vertical Landing (much easier) being the preferred option - except when SRVL required to bring back a heavy weapon load that will disallow a VL. Anyway this is the first time I have seen/heard the 'stopping distance' being about 200 feet from 40 knot groundspeed. Graphic below is a screengrab of the CVF LSO console.

[Letourn]

Marine pilot uses stool to land safely after malfunction

Nice one Spaz did u found the video?

[Victory103]

It's making the rounds on both aviation and non-av sites:
http://theaviationist.com/2014/06/26/no-nosewheel-landing-av8/

[Letourn]

my bad for asking

Thanks for the link

[SpazSinbad]

Same video on Youtube found earlier and on previous page.

'Goonie' the original video has been removed - meanwhile here it is again...

AV-8B no gear landing on USS Bataan

[SUBS17]

Anyone seen this:

F35 VTOL loop

[jimi08]

BATAAN is a good ship!  Got to spend a week underway with her.  Nothing but respect.  GO GATOR NAVY!!!

[Orion]

No video here, but this seems like the most relevant place to post without starting a new thread.

I am a Navy Super Hornet Pilot, ask me almost anything!

[SpazSinbad]

Look how much the ShtHotBreak Guy is looking out to do the break, base & approach in this video:

From the POST where the link to the VIDEO is from there is a great description of carrier landing by this former F-18C pilot. Scroll down to 'TIM HIBBETTS':

http://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-land-on-an-aircraft-carrier

[Paddles]

1:19 - wing level out of turn
1:34 - touchdown
Just 15 seconds in groove. Perfect!

And here's another video with quite rare view of the stick and throttles in action (5:53 to 6:00)

[SpazSinbad]

Nice find 'PADDLES'. Here is an edited version with just the control movements - slowed down to one quarter of the original FAST video speed to better show I hope more realistic 'real' time movements - but I can only guess. Anyway...

[GOONIE]

Very cool find Paddles and Spaz. 

In the video you can really see the pilot "walking the throttles" with small movement on the individual motors, moving the left throttle then the right up and back to make power corrections. I was trying to see how and if the pilot was responding to the burble, hard to tell.

Orion, nice AMA on reddit. Lot of top gun references  . My buddy flies hornets, and it is always a AMA when we get together for a beer.

[SpazSinbad]

On The Deck With The Hercules Uploaded on Aug 12, 2014

"In 1963, a US Navy aircrew made twenty-one full-stop landings aboard the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal—in a four-engine KC-130F tanker that didn’t have a tailhook. This video documents one the most unusual test programs ever flown in a Hercules. The video, taken from film, also includes footage of Marine Corps KC-130Fs refueling and Navy LC-130Fs Ski-Hercs in action."

[SpazSinbad]

WHO Introduces VX-23 HOOK14

This squadron does the fixed wing carrier suitability trials with obvious stress testing of the aircraft in all kinds of odd landing situations to try to mimic on land what may happen out at sea:
 

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Shake Rattle & Roll VX-23 Hook14