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Wow! A one point landing...Tough to achieve...Even tougher to retain your wings (the ones on your chest)...That one still has its droptanks attached too......Ben
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He was in a rush to get home
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Carrier deck pitched.
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Maybe, but the roundel placing looks USAF, not Navy nor Marines...Originally Posted by Mike
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True, I didn't even look at the markings. I don't see a tail-hook either.
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I don't think carriers pitch that much
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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I submit that the pic was taken during a bad recovery from a VERY bad landing attempt . One should bounce basket balls , NOT F-4s .
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Even the Phantoms in my own wing all had tailhooks...I don't remember one ever being deployed there, but they were operational...Spangdahlem's runway had four arresting wires just for such an emergency...They were at about the 9000 foot mark on our 13000 foot runway...All our F-4's always used the drag chutes, the tailhooks were the OS option when all else failed...An unknown camera operator took the below photos at WOH...True, I didn't even look at the markings. I don't see a tail-hook either....Ben
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Okay, I have now proven that I know nothing about F-4s other than they make lots of beautiful black smoke!
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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That's why I hang around this joint, I learn something new every day!......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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I find our warplanes to be beautiful.
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I think IV summed it up correctly
I do know that they time take offs to be advantaged by a rising deck, I'm not sure they can do the same with landings.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
wait that not right
May 10th, 1966, Lt Greg Schwalbert of VF-14 launched off a carrier at sea with his aircraft weighing in at over 34,000 lbs in high winds. Immediately after launch in winds of 33 kts over the deck, the pilot became frighteningly, and most painfully aware that his wings were still in the folded position. After quickly jettisoning his external load, Lt Greg Schwalbert steered towards the safety of the shore that lay over 59km away. The Phantom was successfully recovered at NAAS Leeward Point after a tense 180 kts approach speed and touchdown that would be comparable to a Space Shuttle approach. Any slower and the aircraft was feared to rapidly depart controlled flight. The pilot and aircraft survived, but no word on the condition of the pilot’s underwear. Once again, the F-4 is proof that with enough power, even a brick could fly!
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