Thanks for the replies, I’m still curious about the practice of using AOA instead of an indicated airspeed for land based operations
It makes sense landing on a carrier where you want the lowest possible touchdown speed but why carry that practice over to landings on a conventional runway ?
Furthermore it looks like no flare was used, in terms of wear and tear on the airframe there must have been a good reason to not
arrest the descent at least slightly before touchdown ?
Is this related to the issue with stabilizer tip clearance?