Duke
MegaDork
12/10/24 9:25 a.m.
aircooled said:
In reply to myf16n :
Interesting shot. Looks like it setup for a catapult launch. Thrown fan blade from blown up engine? Looks like a drop tank dumping fuel? I didn't realize the canopy ejects straight back on the track, makes sense. I am guessing we are about a frame away from an ejection, WSO first?
Here is another interesting shot. I think it is real (DCS shots can look very good). Looks like he hit the stern and took of the nose gear (but where is it?) and collapsed the main gear. Where are the arresting wires though. Look like an amphibious assault ship. What is an F18 doing trying to land on one.... very strange. Maybe not real? The deck crew look real though, but seem to be in a very bad position for a landing. (man, hard to trust anything on the internet)
Nose gear is still almost up - you can see the dual wheels between the open bay doors directly below the forward end of the root extension. Main gear hasn't deployed fully yet.
My guess is it was a last-second wave-off because the pilot forgot to drop the gear, or a hydraulic issue prevented the gear from extending.
Either way, that doesn't explain trying to put the hotrod down on a straight-deck carrier made for helos and light craft.
aircooled said:
In reply to myf16n :
Interesting shot. Looks like it setup for a catapult launch. Thrown fan blade from blown up engine? Looks like a drop tank dumping fuel? I didn't realize the canopy ejects straight back on the track, makes sense. I am guessing we are about a frame away from an ejection, WSO first?
Here is another interesting shot. I think it is real (DCS shots can look very good). Looks like he hit the stern and took of the nose gear (but where is it?) and collapsed the main gear. Where are the arresting wires though. Look like an amphibious assault ship. What is an F18 doing trying to land on one.... very strange. Maybe not real? The deck crew look real though, but seem to be in a very bad position for a landing. (man, hard to trust anything on the internet)
The A-6 is indeed on the catapult with launch bar down and engaged in the shuttle. The crew of the A-6 jettisoned the canopy in preparation to climb (fall) out of the jet. In an A-6 ejection, the seats go through the closed canopy.
Everything about that F-18 attempting to land on an LHA / LPH is fake. The scale of the photoshopped (legacy) Hornet is too big, crew on the deck, type of ship, everything. It would have never been attempted. If there was some sort of inflight emergency, during blue-water ops, and that was the only ship around, the pilot would have been told to eject and would have been picked up by a helo from the ship
A young friend of mine has decided he wants to build a LoCost 7 and power it with a Honda Blackbird engine.
Duke
MegaDork
12/10/24 2:01 p.m.
myf16n said:
Everything about that F-18 attempting to land on an LHA / LPH is fake.
If there was some sort of inflight emergency, during blue-water ops, and that was the only ship around, the pilot would have been told to eject and would have been picked up by a helo from the ship
That's pretty much what I was thinking, but dumber things have happened.
Pic unrelated:
Swedish target tug, used by the British as a DT989.
Duke said:
That's pretty much what I was thinking, but dumber things have happened.
You don't say...
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/that-time-a-royal-navy-sea-harrier-did-an-emergency-landing-on-a-spanish-cargo-ship-the-alraigo-incident/
Not a short-stall landing?
914Driver said:
Not a short-stall landing?
No, that's not a thing.
The large horizontal white line directly beneath the jet is approximately 45ft long. The red and white striped line where the crew is standing is approximately 60ft away from the white curbing near on the right side of the image. Legacy Hornets have a 40ft wingspan. The distances are all wrong. The horizontal stabilators aren't deflected enough to match the AOA, the drop tank would have been jettisoned by this point, and the gear wouldn't be in transition that close to the ship. None of it adds up.
myf16n said:
aircooled said:
In reply to myf16n :
Interesting shot. Looks like it setup for a catapult launch. Thrown fan blade from blown up engine? Looks like a drop tank dumping fuel? I didn't realize the canopy ejects straight back on the track, makes sense. I am guessing we are about a frame away from an ejection, WSO first?
Here is another interesting shot. I think it is real (DCS shots can look very good). Looks like he hit the stern and took of the nose gear (but where is it?) and collapsed the main gear. Where are the arresting wires though. Look like an amphibious assault ship. What is an F18 doing trying to land on one.... very strange. Maybe not real? The deck crew look real though, but seem to be in a very bad position for a landing. (man, hard to trust anything on the internet)
The A-6 is indeed on the catapult with launch bar down and engaged in the shuttle. The crew of the A-6 jettisoned the canopy in preparation to climb (fall) out of the jet. In an A-6 ejection, the seats go through the closed canopy.
Everything about that F-18 attempting to land on an LHA / LPH is fake. The scale of the photoshopped (legacy) Hornet is too big, crew on the deck, type of ship, everything. It would have never been attempted. If there was some sort of inflight emergency, during blue-water ops, and that was the only ship around, the pilot would have been told to eject and would have been picked up by a helo from the ship
This is one of the worst attempts at photoshop I've ever seen. There no chance any fixed wing aircraft without vertical landing capability would ever attempt to land on one of these types of vessels.
Yeah, with Dukes comments about the gear, it looks like the gear is coming up and the shadow / blast effect might be the result of a sharp pull up after take off (as the gear is coming up) is the shot that was edited in. Also note that the arrester hook is not down (not that it would need it to land on a carrier without arresting wires!).
This fake is MUCH better done 
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(largest aircraft to ever land on an aircraft carrier I believe)
In reply to aircooled :
That was amazing on multiple levels. The Navy saved that C-130. It's awaiting restoration at the Naval Aviation Museum.
Well, since the meme thread is locked, you guys will just have to suffer through it in the hot link thread. You've been warned:
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And then there's the USAF telling the Navy to 'Hold my beer'
Duke said:
Is that who I think it is? Even during broad daylight I'd be terrified hearing him cackling in the middle of a tree farm.
When feelings run high, and somebody is being wrong on the internet, remember how awesome this place is.
