Magic carpet ride

[Steve Molcsan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me3kl2kXe6c

[Threedayweekend]

Where is the air sick bag I think I am going to puke bah LOL

[Kaboom1]

That was cool Steve. I love watching our pilots boring holes in the sky!

Brad

[rayhill190]

Steve,i did that,nah musta been trippin.Thanks

[Uncle Jesse]

It's probably one of the things I will never get to do but a carrier takeoff has to be about as much fun as a person can have, unless its aerobatics ( which would make me extremely ill, but even Chuck Yeager got sick the first time he flew.)

[Lotech]

Thanks Steve,
I've always been jealous of what those rocket jockeys can do. It must be tough being able to tell which way is UP after a while.

[Byron Zuehlsdorff]

Boy would I love to get a ride in one of those!!!

[TyroneFly]

Neat stuff. I would love to take a ride on one. The part that would scare the daylights out of me is the landing. Catching the wire on a moving, bobbing ship has got to be one of the scariest things going.

[JeffHamm]

Neat stuff. I would love to take a ride on one. The part that would scare the daylights out of me is the landing. Catching the wire on a moving, bobbing ship has got to be one of the scariest things going.

The other scariest thing is not catching the wire!

- Jeff

[Uncle Jesse]

The other scariest thing is not catching the wire! - Jeff

It is my understanding they hit the deck with preparations for that possibility with the throttle pushed to full open. As tough as task as it is today, think how difficult it was in 1942-45 before computers, some with some flight controls shot away, almost out of fuel.