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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #225 on: January 31, 2014, 05:48:43 pm »
Checked out the video on my computer. And it works.

Nice video Goonie.

Funny, that it won't work on my mobile.

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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #226 on: February 01, 2014, 11:33:25 am »
Within a few years JPALS will allow very accurate automatic landings in all conditions (up to a limit I guess), especially when fitted to Super Hornet and F-35C and aircraft of that era (UCLASS for example) so that the LSO will have not a lot to do except signal WAVE OFF as required. :-)

VIEW of the HUD near Touch Down is not so clear from the Screenshot - indicates a good approach however.

NAVAIR Flight Ready: Joint Precision Approach and Landing System 29 Jan 2014  NAVAIRSYSCOM
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"Engineers at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., discuss the successful evolution of the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS). Learn more about this innovative technology from inception to the first shipboard landing on USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)."

"TRANSCRIPT: Capt. Darrell Lack/Program Manager, PMA-213, NAVAIR Air Traffic Management Systems Program Office; Shawn Faubion/Deputy Program Manager for Landing Systems, PMA-213; Paul Sousa/Assistant Manager for Test & Evaluation, JPALS; Dave Crawford/ Lead Test Engineer, JPALS

Faubion: JPALS is a precision approach and landing system based on GPS technology.  Instead of the historically radar and beacon based landing systems which the navy and marine corps are currently using. It is intended to bring a capability and flexibility that those legacy landing systems don’t offer and also an interoperability that could be used across, eventually, ship, shore, manned, unmanned, fixed and rotary wing aircraft.

Lack: JPALS in the future is primarily going to be in the F-35 B and C models for the Navy and Marine Corps and also the UCLAS Unmanned air systems.   It utilizes the existing GPS constellation it brings those signals in, does mathematical computations between two assets, and aircraft and then a ship, and it calculates a touch-down point onto an aircraft carrier deck.

Crawford: There was a lot of preparation to get ready for what was our very successful period on the boat. A lot of that started back in the September, October time frame here at Pax River.  We did conduct a large number of F/A-18 flights here shore based and built our way down from elevated touch downs to ultimately touchdowns to the deck here and all of that was in preparation to say we were ready to go do work on the boat.  

Faubion:  Patuxent River with its lab facilities allows us to demonstrate that JPALS can be integrated onto the ship in a very controlled fashion and we can demonstrate that without the risk, uncertainty and cost of actually being on the ship at the time.

Sousa: The latest at-sea testing was conducted aboard Theodore Roosevelt, CVN-71.  We had two F-18 jets out there instrumented for JPALS, with the JPALS airborne system installed as well as the ship board system installed on the ship.

Lack: We had over 50 precision approaches and landings, the performance that we saw it was landing precisely where we were asking it to land, where it had been programmed to land and the pilot reports that came back it was very gentle, it was a gentle landing.  It acted just like, if you will, just like the legacy systems; over all it was a very good success.

Fabuion:  We’ve proven out that the ship system can provide the ability to land an air vehicle hands-off.  We are going to be making some improvements over the next year or two to the JPALS ship system and to the software that’s going to be running in the air system so that it will have that degree of safety without a pilot in the loop.

Crawford: We had something that was good for us in this and that we kept it simple, we tried to use things we had done in the past to decide that we could work towards it at the ship and I think that helped us.

Sousa: It was a very pleasant experience to see, not only the system work the way it did, but the whole team, the JPALS, the program office, the test team, engineering, everybody working together along with the contractor; I think it was a very good evolution at sea. >>>out<<<"



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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #227 on: February 01, 2014, 01:10:12 pm »
This 'without a pilot in the loop' means that the LSO would actually grade not a pilot but a software developer, i.e. a programmer... ;D

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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #228 on: February 02, 2014, 11:54:40 pm »
finnish hornet take off from a road





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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #229 on: March 03, 2014, 05:34:42 am »
"Join Steve Naylor, an aerospace engineer at Patuxent River, Md., as he shows you how the manned flight simulator increases flight test efficiency."

I think the simulator seen at the end is called a TOFT? anyway it is all about the simulator for the F-18 at NAS Patuxent River.

The Flight Crew - Manned Flight Simulator

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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #230 on: March 24, 2014, 04:03:30 am »


Hawks dogfight.

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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #231 on: April 23, 2014, 06:45:06 pm »
No DLs seen in this preview - sadly.

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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #232 on: June 17, 2014, 10:09:55 pm »
a documentary about carriers.......




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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #233 on: June 25, 2014, 07:34:07 pm »
Harrier with gear up landing
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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #234 on: June 25, 2014, 07:37:39 pm »
Cheers Goonie, :)

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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #235 on: June 25, 2014, 08:32:56 pm »
BZ to pilot/LSO and the chaps who thunk up the stool. Think how much easier a no nosewheel landing will be in an F-35B with the pilot able to see through the floor via HMDS?
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« Reply #236 on: June 26, 2014, 12:45:05 pm »
Is there a story attached? In the helo world we have a plan that has been used to recover a stuck sonar dome with mattresses. Almost used the idea again when we popped a main mount tire doing 1 wheel landings on a destroyed tank on the range (CO was on the controls), concern was on shutdown how low our blades would go as we listed to one side, no issues in the end.
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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #237 on: June 27, 2014, 05:03:08 am »
'Goonie' the original video has been removed - meanwhile here it is again...

AV-8B no gear landing on USS Bataan

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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #238 on: June 27, 2014, 05:06:44 am »
'Victory103' the USMC are notorious for some years ago (ordered by a Col.) for making a Trainer AV-8B land on a pile of mattresses which it had no wheels. The results were not good. Years before the RN FAA had landed a SHAR onboard in some kind of wheel less condition without troubles (variable) whilst an unintentional wheelsup SHAR landing was done at an air display years ago - I believe the aircraft was fixed - it suffered minimal damage as I recall.
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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #239 on: June 27, 2014, 08:45:10 am »
Here is the USMC MATTRESS incident. I guess this is the reason for the STOOL invention.

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"Ya just gotta weep: This is what happens when your superiors don't understand the rules. What to do when your landing gear won't come down explanation below. To quote the guy who showed the pics:

"Basically, the nose gear wouldn't come done. The Harrier has a backup system with a nitrogen bottle to blow the gear down in this event. Well, someone significantly outranking the pilot ordered him not to blow the gear down (which is the specified emergency procedure) because by his 'superior' reasoning, if the nose gear didn't come down, he was afraid the jet would break its back by having all that weight on the long nose of the T-bird. With that, he elected to gather mattresses and strap them down to support the extended nose, and you have the obvious result.

'Normally' a Harrier that can't get it's gear to come down will suck up the gear and do a vertical landing on the strakes/gun pack, they'll jack the bird up, fix the gear, and it's back to flying rather quickly. In this case, the motor was hilariously trashed with mattress springs protruding out and everything. This has since become a legendary event in the Harrier community (rather small community) and is laughed about often. The best part was, when they jacked the plane up in the hangar and pulled the gear handle to blow them down, all 4 came down and locked in place."
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