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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.... ;D
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
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