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SpazSinbad:
First F-35C arrests (two aircraft) USS Nimitz 03 Nov 2014.

This first video is great because it shows a head on approach view:

GOONIE:
Cool Spaz, thanks for sharing.

I would like to see the LSO's grades for those first landings ;D

SpazSinbad:
A sharp eyed 'cross deck pedant' at pPrune mentioned that on that first ever arrest that no.2 wire was touched (probably by main wheels). So what. :-) However just for the heck of it two SLO MO videos were made and they are here: First is one eighth slow motion while the second is slow moed again by one eighth.

SpazSinbad:
An excellent compilation video with other views not seen before is here:

http://www.livescience.com/48597-joint-strike-fighter-makes-first-carrier-landing-unclassified-video.html

Whilst a fourth USN video (helo view) is here:

SpazSinbad:
Catapults have been carried out today (04 Nov) and here are a couple of extra approaches from them (complete video with cats follows):

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