Following on from Democritus' video, I stumbled on this excellent side-by-side video of day and night landings in an S3:
Boy, those runway-end lights come very close!
A question for the experts, something that hadn't occurred to me before. Since the TDZ is moving away, at say 20 kts, is the glideslope angle of the mirror and other carrier-based aids increased to allow for the movement, so that that the pilot follows a normal glide path?
Concerning the Sea Vixen "coal hole", what was the thinking behind that decision? I would have thought it better to have another pair of eyes looking around and then make arrangements to view the radar with a rubber eyepiece or even a hood, like Tiger Moths and Magisters.