'Mechta' interesting stuff eh. BEWARE the Video Below is by LM! Oh No Da HOOK! (tick tock) & dem Northern Lights
Great video below - with extra 'not before seen' scenes - turn down the volume on the initial music perhaps - or turn it up to
ELEVEN!
Just as an aside - to highlight the difference between NOW and in ye olden dayse:
RECOLLECTIONS OF AEROMEDICAL FLYING TRIALS 11 Mar 2014 Surg Cdr Herbert Ellis RN FAA
"...Next day we were off to visit Ark Royal [in a tandem
METEOR without a hook]. What then took place warrants recording in the history books – Pat was the oldest man ever to have done a first ‘deck landing’. After an initial try, when I flew the aircraft from the back seat for a ‘touch and go’, Pat repeated the exercise himself a few times before we returned to Farnborough.
This met the Admiralty’ s requirements before participating in deck-landing. And here I quote……
‘No one must do a deck-landing until, either, he has completed a formal course in deck-landing or he has done a deck-landing.’
http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/document...n_Medicine.pdf (3Mb)
Crew Interviews from F-35C Sea Trials Published on Dec 4, 2014
"Hear from the U.S. Navy pilots and maintainers that were aboard the USS Nimitz for the F-35C sea trials in November 2014."
An example of ye olden USN style of formal course in DECK landing.
Buckeye T-2C FCLP & Carrier Quals New Pilots