The Cool Video Thread

[Puff]

my first post and thought I would share this from another forum - cheers

http://vimeo.com/31549908#

[jimi08]

Welcome to the forums and thanks for sharing Puff.

[DigitAL]

Very cool video and welcome Puff!

[SpazSinbad]

Great Video 'Puff' - thanks for that. A similar but old video is called 'Down to the Wire' with T-2C Buckeyes:
 
DOWN TO THE WIRE PART 1, 2 & 3 - US NAVY 8066

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

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[SpazSinbad]

Screenshot from 'Angle of Attack - Excerpt 1' Video showing 'crossing the wake' however the explanation is a bit muddled but I think we get the idea. NavAv can be difficult to explain. 

[Puff]

thanks for the warm welcome guys - I much appreciate the hard work you guys put into carrier ops

[SpazSinbad]

NIGHT Vertical Landing F-35B USS Wasp VIDEO:

Two F-35B Lightning II Jets Begin Developmental Testing II Aboard USS Wasp

F-35B Accomplishes First Night Vertical Landing Aboard USS WASP

[SpazSinbad]

F-35B Lightning II Week 1 Testing

"Published on Aug 26, 2013  Video of the F-35B Lightning II conducting Development Testing II testing aboard USS Wasp (LHD 1) during week 1 of testing."

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[jimi08]

Wow!  I'm surprised that they have started releasing videos already.  I'm actually on the USS WASP right now.  It's been pretty cool watching this thing take off, land and do flight ops on our deck for the past three weeks.  Tons of Lockheed Martin workers embarked.  From talking to some of the pilots, this thing is pretty impressive from the flight handling perspective.  Can't wait to pull back in though.

[SpazSinbad]

'Jimi08' I understand you want to be back - you are fortunate I reckon - make sure you wear your ear muffs. Turn the volume up to ELEVEN! 

[jimi08]

Nice video Spaz.  That thing pretty much lands right above my office just below the flight deck.  VERY LOUD.

[SpazSinbad]

Heheh. Are you able to wear ear plugs or is that not practical? I have read about new flight deck ear protection being developed for all the USN flat decks. I guess that gear will be available soonish? Look after your hearing. I have had some slight to moderate hearing loss from my time in the RAN FAA when we did our best to protect our hearing - some worse than others of course. And hearing will never improve because hearing loss is cumulative. Meanwhile here is....

Aircraft Carriers: Modern Warships - Big bigger biggest [National Geographic] LONG 50 Minute VIDEO

"Published on May 23, 2013
This film reveals how seven ingenious technological breakthroughs enabled engineers to build the biggest aircraft carrier in the world - the USS Nimitz, weighing more than 100,000 tons.

From steam catapults and mirror landing aids to advanced nuclear-powered engines, well chart the historic inventions embodied by seven landmark aircraft carriers to see how aircraft carrier design continues to push the limits of size.

An aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project airpower worldwide without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations. They have evolved from wooden vessels used to deploy balloons into nuclear-powered warships that carry dozens of fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft.

Aircraft carriers are typically the capital ship of a fleet, and are extremely expensive to build and important to protect. Of the ten nations that possess an aircraft carrier, eight possess only one. Twenty aircraft carriers are currently active throughout the world with the U.S. Navy operating 10 as of February 2013 though some of these nations no longer have carrier-capable aircraft in inventory and have repurposed these ships."

[SpazSinbad]

Looks like an SRVL approach to me (when 6 degree glideslope reached then descent at 60 knots). I did not hear the narration on Youtube but later so that clarifies what is going on.

Here is a graphic explaining the SRVV Ship Referenced Velocity Vector from:  http://www.hrana.org/documents/PaddlesMonthlyAugust2011.pdf (2.2Mb)

Paddles Monthly August 2011 ‘What the Future Beholds...’ Dan "Butters" Radocaj Test Pilot/LSO VX-23 Ship Suitability

“...We may also need to add another lens-type glideslope indicator. One idea is called a Bedford Array. You can see in Figure 1 that a Bedford Array is like a lens spread of over the length of the LA. Unlike an IFLOLS which has 12 cells that are always on to create a glideslope reference, the Bedford Array is a set of Christmas lights and only the light corresponding to current position of the touchdown point is illuminated. Just as the dynamic touchdown point moves across the deck on the LSODS screen, the Bedford Array lights would “move” forward and back across the deck corresponding to the dynamic touchdown point. Figure 2 shows what your HUD may look like. You keep the ship stabilized velocity vector on top of the Bedford light that is illuminated. The datum is a reference line in your HUD. As long as the 3 all line up you are on glide path. A Bedford Array & a ship stabilized velocity are indicators of glide-slope that will show you if you are off glide-slope more precisely but they still don’t make the airplane respond differently....”

http://www.hrana.org/documents/PaddlesMonthlyAugust2011.pdf (2.2Mb)

I'll attach it also...

Landing an F35B on HMS Queen Elizabeth SRVL

"Published on Sep 6, 2013
What will it look like of pilots coming in to land, at night, on HMS Queen Elizabeth? This simulation will give you an idea..."

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