But it is true.
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The chicks do dig it.
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Oh hell yeah, chicks do dig it. Plane pr0n for a Saturday morning – me loves plane pr0n.
Big kiss to Lex and thank you most kindly, Sir.
mmmmMMM Yes! Yes! Yes!
Seriously. We dig it.
SO TRUE! Please??? Like any Chick has a chance around those skills…I was putty in his hands as soon as I heard those words, “I wanna take you flying with me.”
Cool. Everyone just be allowed to do at least one of those videos to send home.
Nice shot of the fancy new Joint-Helmet-Mounted-Cueing-System
http://www.vsi-hmcs.com/pages_hmcs/02_jhm.html
LOL! Never heard that song before, but I love it.
Yeah, this chick digs it. Bigtime. Didn’t use to (arrival of Topgun in my teenage years didn’t leave a mark on me), until I discovered this blog. As always, it’s entirely Lex’s fault.
Is an ignorant but admiring civilian allowed some questions?
1) Is it true only the US military conducts night time carrier landings?
2) Is it correct that a pilot landing on a carrier focuses on the data display, NOT the landing surface, in the final stages of landing?
3) This one I really wonder about: On the carrier decks I’ve seen in photos, the landing strip appears not aligned with the ship, but at an angle. Doesn’t this force the pilot (and those guiding him) to calculate coming down on a strip as it comes across his flight, rather than along a mutual straight path (which would seem infinitely simpler) ?
4) That night landing sequence was startling in the low visibility evident. Is it always so?
I could never even pretend to deal with the things a pilot handles daily. I’m overwhelmed, honestly. I would never be any good at ‘killing snakes in the cockpit’ or anything coming close to that level of pressure. I’m lucky I never got close to military duty, probably.
Humble and awed regards, Peter W.
This chick does dig the flying.
Country music, not so much. But whatever, the song does work with the video.
Gotta agree with Kris, plane pron on a Saturday … oh yeah! Thanks Lex.
Cute city boy airframe. Urban cowboy posers.
Woulda’ suited the Country tone better with more of a “mud on the tires” type aircraft.
Hmm, maybe something manly with props and a muscular Bethpage empenage.
Peter W., the French used to (and I believe still do) fly at night, but it’s a special qualification as I understand, restricted to a certain senior set of pilots. Night carrier quals is a rite of passage for our “nugget” aviators. The Brits fly their Harriers at night as well aboard their VSTOL carriers.
You get most of the way aboard on instruments, but the transition to a night “scan” of the visual aids is critical in the final phase of flight. You might find this interesting reading on the topic. Or this.
The landing area is offset 11-12 degrees (depending upon the carrier) to permit simultaneous launch and recovery operations. It does indeed made it more challenging, especially at night.
And yes, it’s usually that bad on a night approach. When it isn’t worse
blackeagle603: spfft!
P-dub, I’ll try to answer your very good questions.
1) Is it true only the US military conducts night time carrier landings?
I want to say yes, but it would be an educated guess.
2) Is it correct that a pilot landing on a carrier focuses on the data display, NOT the landing surface, in the final stages of landing?
Little snark here to the -18 types (sorry Lex). It’s true that they only look at the data display…(we call them HUD cripples). The rest of us who are actually flying the plane we’re in (not just a vote) look at the ball, centerline and angle of attack (airspeed).
3) This one I really wonder about: On the carrier decks I’ve seen in photos, the landing strip appears not aligned with the ship, but at an angle. Doesn’t this force the pilot (and those guiding him) to calculate coming down on a strip as it comes across his flight, rather than along a mutual straight path (which would seem infinitely simpler) ?
Angled deck makes landing safer…that is, if you miss (bolter) you have a clear path to fly away and try again. Good observation though, the deck is always moving to your right so there are minute wing dips in that direction to stay on centerline.
4) That night landing sequence was startling in the low visibility evident. Is it always so?
Always seems darker to me when I see a night landing on film…but it is dark. Darker than a bag of ***holes is one term affectionately used.
But damn is it fun (Daytime anyway).
Not much on country music? Your loss, my gain.
And the plane pr0n looks good too.
Thanks for the tip, Father Lex. The monk in you seems to be coming out.
Subsunk
God I miss da boat, night traps look like more fun with a HUD but not by much
The helmet he´s wearing, there´s a bulge on top behind the visor its not rounded like the ones i´ve seen it looks square, what is it?
Thanks
lol.
Was waiting on Nose to at least make a crack about all that room from wingtip to foul line…
Huh! I never would have guessed that song. I was certain it would have been “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy” by Kenny Chesney.
Lex, thanks for redefining “ego driver.”
Too bad that’s NOT country music!!!!!!!
Poser pop/crap music is more like it.
Good vid though.
What was that “ball” call? All I saw was a centered velocity vector all the way down on that HUD
Black is black though. Nuttin’ sissy ’bout a Nx trap, no matter what ya drive. Thanks for dose of pron!
A Hornet always has two runways to land on 70L and 70R.
Unlike the more manly product of the Grumman Iron works-where the pilot, not the computer, works the trim on the aircraft.
Now that’s sure to be a RedNeck Navy recruitin’ video. … Thought I was Earnhardt…
It wasn’t the first time I’d heard the song, but it was the first time I’d seen the video, and the blend is masterful.
My read on this may be wrong, but in that early shot where he’s taxiing to the shuttle, isn’t it pretty clear that jet is configured “5-wet” (i.e. they’ve taken a sweet $54M war machine and turned it into a flying gas station)?
Cool vid, but if’n I were gonna post one of me landing on the ship, I’d probably pick one where I landed on centerline…
‘Course, maybe he never has. He’s probably still got a 4.0 from his two Hornet Cag Paddles!
Diego, I noticed the helmet too, think it has something to do with the helmet mounted cueing for the AIM-9X or somesuch…
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I think the helmet design is in hope that the brain capacity of the pilots will increase in not only capability, but physical volume….and will then have a place to go…
re: the post title…
I never was big on country either, until late(er) in life. My eldest turned me on to some pretty good stuff around my 50-year point, or perhaps even later than that.
Took a lil bit of doin’, but he converted me. Or at least acclimated me to the point where I don’t cringe when I hear country music, and I’ve actually laid down good money (meaning mine) and bought some of my very own.
Stranger things have happened to an ol’ rocker…but not many.
I was curious where all the hits on the video were coming from, and that led me here, so I thought I’d say hello and add a comment or two.
First, I won’t make excuses for not being exactly on centerline, but by Hornet/Rhino standards, those landings are on centerline. Even if I didn’t pull the wire straight out, it still counts. Besides, while I agree that we have more room to err on lineup, we make up for it with the fact we can’t practically stop and back up like the Hummer.
The night pass is from my nugget cruise. I’d like to think I’m a little better now. Most of the time I land on centerline and sometimes I even stop on my first try. Of course, I fly auto-throttles now (as seen on the day pass), which is nice.
Diego, the black square on the helmet isn’t as cool as you’d think. All it is is a latch that is used to connect the HDU (the grey part that houses all of the expensive electronics) to the rest of the helmet.
As for the 5-wet mention, the outside video of taxiing and of the launch are, indeed, of a 5-wet tanker. The footage from inside the cockpit was a bombing hop in the western Pacific.
I’m glad you all liked the video. Even if the music wasn’t a huge hit, I had lots of choices so I wanted to try something a little different.
Lex, thanks for the great blog. I’m an ’02 USNA grad, I winged in Meridian and I’m now in CVW-14 with the Fisties, so I appreciate the opportuinty to see a little bit of perspective from somone who has “been there.” Thanks, again.
And for the record: the HUD is a great reference, but I fly the ball. Always.
Alex, ask Pie to get you a flight in the Hummer.
I will. I’ve been meaning to do that for a while now. I’m going to try to get a ride in the Prowler, too. I should have plenty of opportunities this year.