I want these guys as my next pilots.

[Stinky The Clown]

This video shows a turboprop plane assigned to the carrier Eisenhower attempting a landing. The arresting snaps (injuring a few sailors in the process and breaking some bones) and the plane plunges off the bow and nearly into the drink. Quick thinking on the part of the pilot and copilot bright the flaps to full, the landing gear up, and the throttles to full. Watch the video for the result of quick thinking. These radar planes are the only carrier based aircraft without ejection seats. Had they gone into the water their chances of escape and rescue are lower than for any carrier based jet faced with the same dilemma.

http://pilotonline.com/news/military/local/navy-human-error-to-blame-for-march-cable-break-aboard/article_c4675c54-6cdc-5882-867a-68f961145c9d.html

[Glassunion]

1. Correct me if I'm wrong.

But aren't the flaps at 100%, and you at full throttle on touchdown on all carrier landings, for just such the occasion?

Also, where exactly do the pilot, and co-pilot store their giant pairs of led filled brass coated huevos during the flight? I would have cried and filled my underwear with a little bit of everything that I've ever consumed. The ability of pilots to think slow and react smoothly in a crisis always amazes me.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Intelligence, bravery and presence of mind are not situated in male gonads. No sexism, please.

Further, your assumption that the pilots are male is also sexist.

[Glassunion]

4. Give me a break.

1. I never implied the sex of the pilots at all.
2. Huevos are eggs, which if I recall biology correctly, are manufactured in the female reproductive system.

So please do explain how my post was made with sexist intent.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. You asked "correct me if I'm wrong"

Now you get cute and pretend that "led {sic} filled brass coated huevos" does not refer to "balls" in common usage, meaning male balls. Now you want to pretend that you were sexist in a pro-female sense, in the sense that intelligence, bravery and presence of mind reside in female gonads.

Your post was NOT made with sexist intent. But it had an avoidable sexist element. You can do better. You probably will next time, because you will think about it.

[Glassunion]

9. It'd be nice to have a list

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Of all phrases and euphemisms that should never be posted as they may offend and cause a visceral reaction to the readers. If such is impossible due to the overwhelming size of said list, perhaps a much smaller list of approved phrasings would be easier.

Let me correct my first post in the hopes that it causes no injury to any readers.

Also, I'd like to know where the pilot and co-pilot keep their gigantic, gender neutral, metallic filled, sheer bad-ass, non-specific parental figure procreating, container(s) of awesome, and yet the plane can still mange to remain aloft in spite of the sheer weight of the afore mentioned container(s)'s apparent mass which clearly exceeds the maximum payload of the given aircraft.

[Egnever]

11. .

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. impressive

[Blue_Tires]

5. yeah, that's called "squeaky bum" time...

[pinboy3niner]

6. Those guys are good

But I usually stick with my tried-and -true Otto pilot.

[Demonaut]

7. skill and luck, a carrier heads in to the wind during landing ops and the pilot ALWAYS applies

full throttle when it hits the arresting wire, just in case he misses it.

I served on a carrier for 4.5 years

[pfitz59]

10. All professional pilots play the "what if" game....

Be ready and act almost without thinking.

[Lee-Lee]

12. If I recall correctly several on the flight deck

Were injured by the broken cable snapping around.

[Stinky The Clown]

13. Yes, I think it was 12 sailors. Some had broken bones.

Parting wire rope, whether the arresting cable, a tow line, or even a mooring line, can be deadly.

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. .......in which eight sailors were injured.............

Navy investigators blamed human error and an improperly programmed valve for a March incident in which eight sailors were injured when a cable used to catch a landing E-2C Hawkeye snapped on the flight deck of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.

says the link.

Yeah, I can see how that happens.

I swear that carrrier is bigger than some small towns I have lived in.......

[dembotoz]

15. amazed that planes with a giant frisbee on top even fly

[Heeeeers Johnny]

17. One of the largest, most powerful, most expensive navys in the world

and the best they can do is fuzzy, black and white video cameras.

My $60.00 dash can takes better video.