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Brings back a lot of memories

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

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.

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