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Everyone reading this is likely to understand this principle but just in case someone finds it helpful: Never just step out of a vehicle if there is a chance the vehicle is energized from high voltage cables. Wait for help to arrive and, if needed, de-energize the cables before you exit.. If you MUST exit a vehicle which may be energized (such as if the vehicle is on fire), jump as far away from the vehicle as far you can before landing on 'ground/Earth.'

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same day...we were playing Pacific Grove in Monterey, and on the tee box watched him fly down the coast towards Carmel. Soon after we say 2 helps headed that way and did not think anything of it. When I got home, mentioned to my wife that I thought I might have seen JD's plane flying down the coast and her eyes bugged out of here head, then she told me.

I grew up listening to JD in Denver. Probably saw him play in concert at Red Rocks and down town in the park a dozen times. When I was in Jr. High School, my sister dated one of his aircraft mechanics for awhile and she spent a couple weekends in Aspen at the ranch.

Sad loss...

Very cool plane, and agile!!

Took this yesterday - looking south over the Potomac to Virginia from my farm: Yes, Virginia, there is a horizon out there:cool:

Dead calm, multiple scud layers, monotones: When I was flying off of ships these were the conditions that made the visual transition from the flight deck environment to hard core instrument flying interesting!

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Just remove the sun and moon and makes it a lot of "fun" behind the ship. And just because, let's add a pitching deck and maybe some rain. Grab your popcorn for danger TV.

I have always scratched my head at some of the videos of helos boarding a small boy in snotty seas and weather. Yikes.

I would have loved to have been an air force pilot but I wouldn’t have wanted to land on a single ship, ever. Nope, no thanks.

They don’t pay those guys and gals enough.

Java - landing daytime is just plane a blast, night in good weather or a moon is actually sometimes fun, less so on a "inside a black cat dark" night. But landing was never the scary part for me, rather it was the night cat shot with no horizon. You are along for the ride for awhile with only fate and God on your side, and hopefully the engineers and mechs got it right. You even get used to it after a couple hundred times... My absolute least favorite part of a night flight was taxiing after landing when they took you over the top of the shuttle on the bow and swung you 90 degrees to park. Your ass is swing out over the edge of the flight deck, and the attention span of the director who works 18 hour days is all that is between parking and getting a coke, or swimming. Still miss all of it...

That first second or two after you leave the catapult always seemed a bit sketchy to me. It looked like they launched with no hands on the stick… I’d sure hate to make a bad control input when I first grabbed it. Did you ever put any trim in it before launch, to give you a little positive rate of climb with the stick in a neutral position?

I wouldn’t want to maneuver a small car or golf cart on the deck of an aircraft carrier, let alone a large aircraft.

The noseup trim is set pre-launch based on aircraft configuration and load. With five flight computers (four in the AC plus the stupid pilot as the fifth), pilot input is "considered". In other words, you are voting member in control of the aircraft, but the aircraft can decide your input is not desired and ignore you. This is the case on a cat-shot. MIL power, wipe out the controls, select full AB (if fully loaded), and salute. Right hand grabs the "awww ****" or "towel rack handle" on the canopy rail, left hand locks out the throttle.

The nose up trim programs the aircraft attitude to optimize angle of attach with margin during the cat shot. If someone puts too much trim in, you see the nose come up quickly, too little and the shot is much flatter than expected. In either case, you are likely to have someone yammering over the radio to "help."

Once thrown of the front, one potato two, hand back to the stick, clearing turn day-time, gear up, flaps to follow, go about your business.

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Posted before, but since your on the topic of pitching deck. This is an awesome two parter. Practice drills turned reality

Enjoy

Part 1 (can’t figure out the imbedded thing n YouTube in the phone, surry)
https://youtu.be/4Ki8Ji4HQVU

Part - 2

https://youtu.be/uTVj_ZSwxGE


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Such a cool plane!!!

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Bug, great videos. Know all of the people in the videos from flight school and different deployments, small world.

That’s awesome!!!! Small world indeed. Glad you liked them.

Crazy seeing the the deck of the carrier pitch that much, can’t imagine attempting to capture on that. The closest I ever got was flying the F-18 simulator at NAS Lemoore, the stationary one and man it was a wild ride. Did a successful capture, but we are talking calm seas and light winds. An experience I will never forget.

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On approach with the pitching deck, you HAVE to trust the LSO. The landing area dramatically changes as the deck pitches. When the bow is way up, you are too high, and when it goes down rapidly, you are now low with respect to the optimal glide path. IF the ball cannot keep up with the deck the LSO will manually move the landing reference (ball/MOVLAS), and keep you from chasing. But you cannot unseat what is happening in front of you.

During nice weather, it is the sport of kings as you are graded for every landing, and ranked in the air wing.

A humorous take on things

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^^^ That was great!I've got pictures of old Sikorsky, Bell and LM efforts...same stuff, just upgraded for build materials, propulsion, etc.

As you may imagine, there is a lot of discussion on this procurement.

Helicopter are solidly on the aviation "Wheel of Misfortune", meaning, everything is a complete trade-off in performance and maintenance.

I knew the first Navy test pilot of the XV-15 tilt rotor well. He thought the XV-15 was the right size in those days (the 80's) and that the larger Osprey would have issues. The Osprey did have, still has, many, many issues.

There are many reasons I think both the offerings were silly.

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I will admit to an irrational fear of flying in helos. Had my fair share of ride along from the carrier, especially during tsunami response operations. And in port I never missed an opportunity to buy crews a beer just so if they ever needed to fish me out of the water, knowing I buy them beer might make a difference.

The Osprey has way too may moving parts and heavy big engines. I contend that the number of whirling and beating parts forces the planet to cringe, and reject the craft - thus flight.

BUT - being able to hover is pretty freaking cool.

https://youtu.be/i4QX1Eebo68

Giant scale R/C Corsair.

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Talk about silly offerings, you could’ve been the guinea pig selected to test pilot this turd:

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Researchers Suggest Newfound MH370 Debris Reveals Possible 'Criminal Intent'
December 12, 2022
By Tim Binnall

Researchers trying to solve the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 say that newly recovered debris from the lost aircraft suggests that there may have been "criminal intent" behind the plane's peculiar disappearance. The intriguing assertion was reportedly put forward by engineer Richard Godfrey and investigator Blaine Gibson, who collects wreckage from the Boeing 777 that infamously went missing back in February of 2014. Last month, the pair acquired a particularly compelling piece of the airliner's landing gear that, previously unbeknownst to them, had been found by a fisherman in Madagascar five years ago and, upon examining the debris, the duo believe that it provides a critical clue regarding MH370's final moments.

Detailing their findings in a new report, they indicate that the object is a relatively small metal flap, known as a trunnion door, which is opened when an airliner is in the process of landing. This piece, they observe, features a significant "level of damage with fractures on all sides" that were inflicted with "extreme force." The nature of the markings found on the flap led the pair to conclude that "the landing gear was highly likely extended on impact." Chillingly, the duo theorize that whomever was in control of the plane at the time intentionally did this with a particularly nefarious outcome in mind.

The pair propose that the "high speed impact" of the plane while the landing gear had been extended served to both obliterate the aircraft as well as cause it to sink "as fast as possible." Proposing that this "supports the conclusion that there was an active pilot until the end of the flight," the duo posit that the violent nature of the event was done "to hide the evidence of the crash." While the researchers conceded that it remains a mystery as to "who was flying the aircraft or why," they postulated that landing gear door constitutes "the first item of physical evidence that indicates a possible criminal intent behind the demise of MH370."

https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/researchers-suggest-newfound-mh370-debris-reveals-possible-criminal-intent/