Balls That Clank
 

Impressive. Makes it look easy...

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Seahawk should comment on this one.

That thing needs a big suction cup on the bottom to hold it down on the deck.

"Seahawk" is the first name mentioned in the clip!

That guy really gets around! ;)

:D

OP thanks for the great video. Yes very impressive.

I had a friend who was a Tracker pilot in the Canadian navy. This happened many years ago. The Tracker was a twin engine high wing aircraft and was able to land on an aircraft carrier.

He was landing on the carrier in rough seas. As he was about to touch down the carrier pitched upwards, the aircraft hit hard and collapsed the landing gear. The two pilots walked away fortunately.

Brings back a lot of memories:)

Remember, there are are a lot of clanking ovaries flying off small decks now as well:cool:

Seahawk is the common name of the first H-60 series for the Navy based on the Blackhawk. Others: Pavehawk, Jayhawk for the Coasties, etc.

The key to the whole small deck enterprise is the capture system once on deck. In the old days, with the Kaman H-2, there was no securing device on deck and sliding around after landing was a huge problem, both for the pilots and the chalk and chain crew.

Rolling the H-2 out of the hanger and launching in bigs seas could be interesting as well.

Those folks clanked.

Benign day:

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Not so:

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My dad was a ww2 navy pilot. As part of his training he had to land on an aircraft carrier. According to him it was the most terrifying thing he ever did before or after, and that includes some seat time in racecars.
They were piston engine prop planes then and the deck was aligned with the hull, so if you went in the drink you got run over...by an aircraft carrier...

Awww HELL no....

angela

I'd bet this has been plunked down here somewhere before, but for those that might have missed it :)



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Here's a haiku for them:

Your expanding pants
Now accommodating balls
Big as tractor wheels.

(Originally written for Madison Bumgarner)

some fun stuff in this
https://youtu.be/OIZcRTnHClw

How does a pilot with those skills ever adapt to civilian life? Jeez! Land on a pitching deck in the dark and then "Honey don't forget to take out the trash". Faaaaak!

Brings back some interesting memories from many years ago when I was an USN STG3.

We were doing dipping sonar tests in questionable weather & it got worse & worse. Eventually there was so much turbulence, all of us (even the pilot) were sick - what a mess!

When we were coming in to land, between the deck pitching & rolling and the turbulence, I was convinced we were not going to make it and my division officer would be writing "the letter" to my parents.

Whenever I am apprehensive about the weather we are flying through on a commercial flight, I remember that experience and the the apprehension goes away quickly.

That is some ill advised activity. It is bad enough when you have a flight deck big enough to have football, lacrosse and baseball games going simultaneously. That wheeling it out, swinging the rotors up and hauling ass on a nice calm, sunny day, I am down for that.

The stage 4 monsoon landing on a GD postage stamp, no thanks.