Originally Posted by md 600 driver
saw a program on discovery wings last night showing a wasp turning into wind on a ship Lz using the wheels and keeping them in the circle
ITS A MINI ROUNDABOUT LOL
Ya know, that reminded me of a coupla crazy Brits back in the Persian Gulf in 1990...I was on a Ticonderoga cruiser at the time with the USN and a Lynx came over for a cuppa. On takeoff we (Seahawk) used to just lift into a hover and depart...very conservative... but these guys wanted to demo how useful it was to have a steerable nosewheel so they turned the wheel and then proceeded to move the nose left and right through about 30 degrees...much to the astonishment of our flight deck marshaller AND the ship drivers on the bridge (watching through the closed cct camera).
Oh, wait, sorry...I didn't mention that we had a circle on the deck...I think all three of their wheels were in it most of the time...there...managed to stay with the thread after all.