Those were the days - HMS Ark Royal deck landings
 

RAF there too! HMS Ark Royal Buccaneer and Phantom (very dodgy soundtrack for the seakings!)

Ark
 

This was done last month here..
http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...yal-traps.html
Still worth another look though..
sv

*I wondered whether it had but to be honest I just cant be bothered to trawl through hundreds of different thread titles to find a duplicate. I got this yesterday and thought I would share it. Apologies if I've wasted your time.
Merry Christmas
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Buccaneer more stuff
 

"night landings you say",:mad::mad::mad:!!!!

Dont understand you?
Deck landings USA style

Lyneham obsolete. Hercules pilots have a look at this
C-130 Hercules on an Aircraft Carrier!!

At last! Some proper aviation! :E

http://www.terrane.co.uk/ProdImg/EB6514_1_Large.jpg

Does anybody have a link to a photo of our rather more modest trials of an AEW prototype Betty Norman on Ark Royal?

exscribbler - Best the RN not buy too many of those badges as the big bad RAF mafia are out to get the FAA.

On second thoughts, buy loads and give them to the crews on RIBs. It might just baffle the Iranians long enough to allow the crews to get their iPods keistered.:p

Tangential to the topic:
Does anyone know of any 892Sqn F-4K air to air kills?
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I just read yesterday that an 892 Omega off Ark Royal shot a Sidewinder in around 1975 (during the Sailor series but not captured on camera) off Virginia somewhere at an air to air range and knocked one engine off a US (Navy?) C-130!!!
Luckily the Sidewinder did not have a warhead...

Apparently the fault of the Herc's crew who transgressed into the firing range unannounced!
That goes one better than shooting one's own aircraft down (F-4-Jag incident!)

Source: Cdr Michael Doust's 'Phantom Leader' book (he's also the 'Little F' Lt Cdr (Flying) next to Cdr(Air) Bob Northard giving the instruction to 'Turn downwind now' to the F-4s passing by the ship.

Russian deck landing mishap
 

Is this real?
 

sure its real, its a ahem, FISH EAGLE!!!!

Quote:

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Is this real?

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In a word - no

Its amazing who you can fool with some half-decent special effects s/w and some stock footage of a Trident launch...

Now then, Stacker, behave yourself.

I've a similar sticker in the back window of my car and the Guardians of the Gate at Waddington (I'm not sure if they were stackers or RAFP but that's of no real matter as both trades are very alike in outlook) all called me "Sir"... :E

ARXW - that 892 incident occurred in february 1972 on the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Range off Puerto Rico. An 892 F-4 launched from Ark Royal hit a US Navy ERA-3B Skywarrior from VAQ-33 with an inert Sparrow. The inert missile - meant for a Firebee drone - hit the starboard engine. After losing a lot of height very quickly the damaged jet landed at back at Roosevelt Roads. And, after the RN crew had been absolved of any blame for what had happened, the boss of the US Navy squadron (who'd been flying the Skywarrior) wrote a very nice letter to his 892 counterpart, looking forward to the next time their paths crossed ...

Some more Ark Royal nostalgia here. Youtube

Very good. There must be more out there

Em,

I sure you can find many more on youtube. That was when we had a navy. I presume the Army Captain was the range officer and called a few Delta Hotels. I noticed Ark all all her radars going for the photoshoot, even though her 965s couldn't operate at the same time. Fun times.

A little known factoid was that Ark and most of the RN fleet the time had to get a dispensation from the US DoD to enter any US port. Why? because they breached Coast Guard regulations about pumping raw sewage into harbours. No holding tanks and everything went out. We had to pay every time of course.

Navaleye,
Thank you for the sewage information which, though interesting, does not have quite the same exciting attraction as the deck action on the youtube videos. There is a lot of footage on you tube but note that the very first clip at the begining of this thread links to a web site Avweb.
I hope you agree that these clips are good to watch and if you or any other readers of this thread are able to contribute more then that would be fantastic.
Regards
EM

:ok:Great Link EM, really great:ok:

My old man was on the Ark and I saw a lot of photos but not much film footage like that. I got very nervous just waiting for that last Bucaneer to land on his 7th approach! It must take real metal and skill to put a jet on the deck of a carrier especially when the weathers a bit poor. A couple of questions if I may.

- They were going to divert a Phantom to shore if he didn't land next attempt because of his fuel state. Obviously this isn't an option when they are a long way out to sea, so what would they do then? Did they have any 'local' tanking capability?

- I noticed the yaw on landing; do you think that a JCA will be able to land and stop safely on it's brakes alone? e.g. SRVL?

Mr-AEO,

It is standard practice (or was in my time) to have a divert airfield available for any pilot making his first deck landing. I believe the same rule applied to the Shar/Harrier world.

Initial embarkation was always carried out close to a diversion airfield and during non-diversion flying a Buccaneer tanker was manned and ready to go in Fly2 should anyone need a top-up.

Alert Tanker
 

It was normal to keep 2 out of the 14 Buccs permanently configured in Tanker role while embarked and as Navaleye stated during no diversion flying to keep 1 tanker burning & turning in Fly 2 - it made it a b****er to get out of ACR doorway during this time

Thanks for your answers.

More Buccaneer

I guess I will run out of this stuff eventually

Just found this! Ooooh!!
Overboard Off The Ark

Oops. :uhoh:

At least no one was in it.

Bucc off the Ark
 

The aircraft, a Mk 1, was an old airframe being sacrificed to make a training film for aircraft handlers - the "How Not To Do It" bit!

where did this happen?