He’s a good dude, replies, or someone does, to most comments directly.
No cats or traps for me….
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Shared hangar space w them when det’d out to Guam, but long before that.Every time I see that plane I think about the event on Hainan Island.
He’s a good dude, replies, or someone does, to most comments directly.
No cats or traps for me….
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This guy, Rob Roy, is a C-2 pilot and has some great videos.
The only time I was aboard an aircraft carrier was for just a few days and we trapped and launched in a C-2.
I was on Diego Garcia, we got no mail for weeks after that. My car ended up getting repossessed because of it. 😂😂My sister in law was a Clark field in the PI when the volcano erupted. At that time she was a O5 nurse and stayed behind when most of the base was evacuated. She was moved to the Theodore Roosevelt with her medical team and then launched/catapulted in a Greyhound at sea. What a ride!
Nothing I loved more than being down and dirty at 200 ft, yankin and bankin. At my station we rode side saddle, made it that much more fun.My FIL worked for AT&T Underseas Group, he said in the middle of the night in the middle of the ocean, those would come in at wave top level and turn the Sun on.
He said their lights would damn near blind you.
Nothing I loved more than being down and dirty at 200 ft, yankin and bankin. At my station we rode side saddle, made it that much more fun.
I had no windows either, but like you said you pick up other cues.The problem I had in the COD was I could not see anything, and we had no warnings on when the AC was going to do anything. We did have warning of course for trapping, and we knew from the pitch of the engines when we were launching, but even still it came at a surprise. So we flew level, then a violent turn to port for the break, rapid decent, etc.