the scottish airforce/navy if they get independance

[hmmmnz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUdzVnZBaoY
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Wrong link?

[Stevie GooGs]

was thinking the same.
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sorry your right, changed now,
oh and get fucked rogerborg
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Still shows a really odd video. Something to do with a small plane landing on a short runway on a ship at sea, with some groovy dad music.

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

That looks hairy even with good weather.

[I understood the joke ]
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[Llama-Farmer]

Bumpy landing... ought to have done better considering the relative speed


Reminds me of when we used to go gliding in 30+ kt headwinds... you could winch launch and get to 1000ft and you were behind your starting point... when you come in to land you'd have to dive to make forward progress, then round out and you'd practically stop, people could grab the wing tips and pull you down.
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[kawakid]

Well it's got to be better than the British Navy, there's feck all left of it, 20 odd ships. Around the Falklands war we had 3 times that, in the second world war around 10 times that.

Nice landing though.
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[yen_powell]

Aren't we going to be allowed to have some space on the cheese eating surrender monkeys' aircraft carrier?

If I was the First Sea Lord I'd demand some sort of fence between our planes and theirs in case they surrender and we want to carry on a bit longer.
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[Rogerborg]

Good call. On the Eurofighter precedent, they'd just repaint the roundels and claim those planes must have been their all along, maintenant, 'oo wantz ay bargane?
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[The Wobbly Orange]

All well and good but 15-20 years into the carriers life most of the aircraft flying off them will likely be drones.

Reason EMALS would have been chosen is because as a turbine powered ships they lack boilers and hence the steam required for traditional catapults.

They'll probably be fitted down the line anyway, at least it's looking likely both will come into service now.
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[Llama-Farmer]

Interesting (to some people)... During a catapult launch, the pilot will have their hands off the controls, with the exception I think of the old Phantom F4.
Left hand locked behind the thrust levers or on a pull-out handle, throttle friction set to max in order to keep the thrust levers at 100% full reheat, right hand off the stick, usually holding a handle on the canopy (so the catapult officer can see the pilots hand is off controls).


There are multiple reasons for this, but the reasons are all because of the massive acceleration.

- During horizontal-plane linear acceleration, your vestibular system, in the inner ear, perceives a pitching up/leaning backwards sensation. Somatogravic illusion. Instinct is to oppose this by pushing the stick forwards (and that'd result in you very quickly meeting the sea).

- The sudden acceleration can cause your arms to get left behind... i.e. to come away from the controls... in a similar way that a pillions head might if you accelerate a bike quickly, except on a much greater scale. This may result in pulling on the stick, unsettling a dynamically unstable aircraft at lower-than-sustainable-flight-speed. Not good.


On the older aircraft you would set the "trim" before launch and this will guide the aircraft into the correct climb attitude. Modern carrier-based jets have computers which you input various parameters into which will control the jet off the deck, and into the climb.

As soon as the aircraft leaves the deck, the phenomenal acceleration stops instantly and "it's like you hit jell-o" to quote one former US naval aviator.
(in the video at the bottom notice how the pilots head jolts forwards as soon as they're airborne... the way the acceleration suddenly stops is the equivalent of massive deceleration instead)

In fact, the acceleration doesn't actually stop, you're still accelerating very quickly from the after burning engines, but they are nothing like the catapult, so it is perceived to have stopped accelerating.



I have a friend who's an RAF fast jet jockey currently on exchange with the US Navy. He'd been flying fast jets for about 7 years before doing a carrier launch, so he is very familiar with the acceleration of a fast jet, yet he described the acceleration of a catapult launch as "incomprehensible".

If you think a motorbike accelerates quickly, well a steam catapult will fire a 22 tonne jet from 0-165 mph in under 2 seconds.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgchJYJFQG8
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