Originally Posted by
mikehallam
C1,
But if you keep power on as required to hold 40 kt into 40 kt breeze ready to land but say 25 ft up & still too high, you hover, (after a fashion).
When you decide to fly nearer the deck it will land and whilst shutting down, remaining facing into wind as you, brakes on, wait for a wing walking team.
Deck being the operative word as it's how high performance naval a/c manage short runway landings - with carrier 'steaming' into wind plus arrestor hooks. u.s.w.
Come to think of it a suitable bit of elastic stretched across any runway could be fun & solve many landing possibilities.
mike hallam.
I remember the Ark Royal having to do 5knots astern in a howler in Biscay Bay trying to recover two Fouga jets that we're having difficulties catching up with us.
They had hooks down but I don't think they used them!