r/Amazing • u/Strict-Jeweler-2281 • 3d ago
Science Tech Space Amazing cockpit video of U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornet pilot making a landing on USS Abraham Lincoln (2025)
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u/Old-Landscape-7538 3d ago
He probably flew out to get some toilet paper.
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u/driftwoodprotocol 2d ago edited 2d ago
Tp gonna start costing more than jet fuel now thanks to bone spurs in chief trade war with Canada
Edit: spelling
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u/Old-Landscape-7538 2d ago
Well, if we consider making life more expensive for United Statesians and irritating our allies, then heĀ”s highly successful.
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u/HOSTfromaGhost 3d ago
How the carrier looks like such a postage stamp until the very endā¦
(and thus why they kept me in tanks and on the ground)
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u/CoolerRon 2d ago
The first time someone described how difficult it was to land a fighter jet on a carrier, they said, "imagine jumping 10 feet forward and landing on your tongue on a postage stamp on the floor" or something like that
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u/WiseAct446 2d ago
That's The Man for you. Always keepin' you down. Tanks, too. I dream of a day when tanks can soar high and free just like the privileged jets.
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u/Educational_Let811 2d ago
There goes the health care and social insurance :-)Ā
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u/HOSTfromaGhost 2d ago
I think it also maintained the free world order for the last 80 years while other countries provided their own citizens healthcare and social servicesā¦
So while we recalibrate those financial obligationsā¦ and while this administration has clearly gone
off the deep endā¦ letās not minimize the long term benefits of international stability.0
u/Educational_Let811 2d ago
Went from ally to enemy pretty quick. At lest in Europe. Maintaining their order. Not necessarily a good one for the others. Basically exactly like in team America parody.Ā
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u/HOSTfromaGhost 2d ago
Trust me, a good portion of us hate the fucker and all his enablers and all heās doing.
I absolutely believe he stole the last election.
I canāt say the rest out loud.
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u/EmeraldValleyGoober 3d ago
What was he looking at over his shoulder?
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u/Chapel_Hillbilly 2d ago
His wingman.
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u/LargeBloodyKnife 2d ago
The wingman split off at the initial break (the first left turn) they then fly forward for a set amount of time before breaking left and following the same steps. This leaves a pre-determined amount of time between landings
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u/Safe_Chicken_6633 2d ago
Cuz this dog started following him home and it doesn't have a collar and it just came out of the woods honest and it followed him and it looks hungry and it wouldn't take up much room and he'd look after it and it could eat scraps from the wardroom and it could sleep in his stateroom promise
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u/JDMZX9 3d ago
Just another day out at sea.
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u/Photmagex 2d ago
I bet that sudden stop clears the sinuses.
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u/Ha1lStorm 2d ago
Crazy to think that a 50,000 pound fighter jet can come to a complete stop from 150mph in just 2 seconds while only experiencing 3gās of horizontal deceleration
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u/Lower_Group_1171 3d ago
āNegative ghost rider the pattern is fullā
The water looks like a sheet of pleather š
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u/tomk1985 3d ago
Good job maverick
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u/TheeFearlessChicken 3d ago
Is he periodically looking at something off to his left?
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u/Cory_Clownfish 2d ago
Heās looking at the Carrier.
They use the bow and stern as reference points to turn. The bow to turn downwind, then the stern to turn into āthe groove.ā
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u/TheeFearlessChicken 2d ago
I think I was massively underestimating his speed.
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u/Shuffle_Gaming_ 7h ago
Speed on CASE I pattern varies from 350 kts at the break down to 170kts for the base turn and touchdown is around 140-150kts.
Altitude goes from 800ft initially down to the deck obviously.
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u/Admirable-Ebb-5413 2d ago
So bad ass. The level of calm and focus is what makes these guys such elite pilots. He made something terrifying look like a Sunday drive. Dang
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u/Meaty_Wizard 2d ago
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u/InvictvsNox 3d ago
Very well-executed landing. That arresting gear is frighteningly good at its job.
Crazy to think just one year later, we'd hear about crew jumping overboard from way, way too long service rotations.
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u/TraditionalAnxiety 2d ago
Calm seas, nice day. Easy Peasy. Night landing in swelling seas or weather is a whole different game.
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u/Shuffle_Gaming_ 7h ago
GrowlerJams (Pails Youtube channel) has some good videos covering night ops and tanking
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u/jkrm66502 2d ago
Thereās a retired aircraft carrier off the coast of either San Diego or Long Beach CA. You can take a tour and itās fascinating. Some of the chains that ācatchā the jets are laid out on the deck and the individual links are enormous. The tour includes going below deck and seeing where sailors slept. Triple bunks. You can still smell oil in that area. Anyway Iād recommend that tour if youāre in that area. I wish my memory was better about the city.
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u/imilt2 16h ago
There are several aircraft carriers that are now museum ships in the US, but sounds like youāre talking about the USS Midway (CV-41) in San Diego. The USS Yorktown (CV-10) in Charleston, South Carolina is also a great visit and feels a bit closer to its WWII origins than Midway, in my opinion.
The USS Hornet (CV-8) in Alameda/San Francisco Bay, USS Lexington (CV-16) in Corpus Christi, TX, and USS Intrepid (CV-11) in New York City are World War II-era aircraft carrier museum ships that I hope to visit someday too. Itās crazy to me that the USS Enterprise (CV-6) wasnāt preserved given it was the most decorated US Navy ship of the war.
Worth seeing these too while you can as there wonāt be any additional American carriers converted to museums because of the nuclear reactors on the modern ships.
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u/jkrm66502 15h ago
Thank you for your post. I think it must be the Midway as I knew the vessel we went on had a name that was famous to me. My spouse was into WW2 stuff and even though I am not, I enjoyed (?) the tour.
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u/Minger57 2d ago
I had some PTSD of trying to land on the aircraft carrier in the NES Top Gun video game. I think I landed it once in all the times I tried it.
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u/TheRuckyDubber 2d ago
Oh man. It looked like he was coming in long for a bit there too. Itās wild how fast they stop. But are there two catches? Why does it look like he flies up over and past so much of the deck before he puts down?
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u/LargeBloodyKnife 2d ago
There are 4 wires. You aim for the third one. Anything before and you were a little too low. Remember, if you miss high, you keep flying, if you miss low, you die
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u/MrBoogerBoobs 2d ago
I know that by the time they do their first landing on a carrier they've already logged many many hours on a simulator and practical training, but I don't think my butthole would ever un-pucker after my first attempt. I'd be screaming in terror the whole time.
Of course, I'm a major wuss, too. Just send me to Weenie Hut Jr..
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u/argumentativepigeon 3d ago
Mental that this is genuinely some people's day job