Originally Posted by
gums
Salute!
I have watched the Stubbies here at Eglin make approaches with all the doors open but not always wind up in a hover as they would on the new Brit carrier or even for a short roll landing on terra firma. So seems an early warning could allow one to land conventionally.
The Bs at Marham all seem to land with 'everything open' even when doing rolling landings - and the "short rolling vertical landing" is planned to be an operational mode on board the carriers to use less fuel than the traditional VL style