Wicked aircraft carrier footage

**nudemetalz** · 26th March 2009, 12:28

F/A 18 Hornet lands on an aircraft-carrier and the cable breaks.
Scary footage !!!!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0eHWOVjDSw[/youtube]

**Karl08** · 26th March 2009, 12:57

Holy flying cable batman. The poor sods that wore the cable.

**CookMySock** · 26th March 2009, 13:11

Hot damn, ya wanna keep ya eyes up in an environment like that! At least one airman there jumped rope with the girls at school.

Steve

**Swoop** · 26th March 2009, 19:00

Wait until the smuck sets the aircraft landing weight wrong... It can pull the gear out from the deck and the aircraft rolls of the front and then goes "splash".

I wonder if the deck crewman is related to Dubya? Mad skillz in dodgeball!!

**nudemetalz** · 27th March 2009, 09:27

I see an F-22 has crashed in the desert killing it's test-pilot

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29881713/

**Usarka** · 27th March 2009, 09:29

I saw that on telly the other night. It was ironman.

**Swoop** · 27th March 2009, 11:32

Speaking of aircraft carriers...
I see that Japan is building its first since WW2. Specifically not allowed under their own laws though.

**portokiwi** · 27th March 2009, 11:37

that could have taken off their legs

**CookMySock** · 27th March 2009, 11:39

Originally Posted by Swoop

Speaking of aircraft carriers...
I see that Japan is building its first since WW2. Specifically not allowed under their own laws though.

Maybe its just for research purposes?

Steve

**mdnzz** · 27th March 2009, 13:14

Originally Posted by DangerousBastard

Maybe its just for research purposes?

Steve

To help them in the whale research you mean?

**CookMySock** · 27th March 2009, 13:25

Originally Posted by mdnzz

To help them in the whale research you mean?

LOL yeah.

Steve

**McJim** · 27th March 2009, 13:35

Originally Posted by mdnzz

To help them in the whale research you mean?

Originally Posted by DangerousBastard

LOL yeah.

Steve

Have you guys seen the "Save the Cow" campaigns in Japan? Apparently they've discovered that cows are mammals and therefore we shouldn't eat them :slap:

I like whale meat - you need to try it before you knock it!

**LBD** · 27th March 2009, 18:51

I had a 100m 65mm hawser fail at the ships end under full bollard pull, 35T. The entire 100m travelled in a straight line to the deck of the tug without touching the water. The energy that is stored up in a stretched cable is phenominal.

Std practice is clear the decks prior to any effort being applied...for obvious reasons.

**CookMySock** · 28th March 2009, 11:57

Originally Posted by McJim

Have you guys seen the "Save the Cow" campaigns in Japan? Apparently they've discovered that cows are mammals and therefore we shouldn't eat them :slap:

I like whale meat - you need to try it before you knock it!

Save the cow, LOL.. Yes I hear whale meat is like the BEST steak you have ever eaten. Not knocking it.. Just taking the piss slightly.

Originally Posted by LBD

I had a 100m 65mm hawser fail

Woohoo! Duck! Yeah my dad was a sawmiller, and there was always plenty of dire warnings, and sometimes a stern word issued. Actually, I am surprised they were so safety concious (this was 30 years ago) and I don't recall one accident at the mill he managed.

Steve