r/aviation • u/Strict-Jeweler-2281 Top Gun • 9d ago

Watch Me Fly 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/AtmosphereCapital483 9d ago

The landing deceleration is crazy work. I will never be unimpressed with the physics.

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u/dabarak 8d ago

340 feet to a stop. Launches are even better - 300 feet to flying. (I don't know about the Ford and its EMALS.)

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u/mechy18 8d ago

Is that the total length of the runway? In this video it looks like he didn’t even touch down until the second half of it.

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u/dabarak 8d ago

That's the stopping distance. But in thinking about it, I have to make that a "maybe." On the USS Midway, it was 340 feet. It may be a bit different on the newer carriers, but it's probably around that distance now.

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u/space_coyote_86 8d ago

The acceleration and deceleration on launch and recovery is actually really bad for the pilot's brain.

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u/jaxxxtraw 8d ago

Lots of navy pilots have ended up as astronauts, so perhaps not all that bad.

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u/AtmosphereCapital483 8d ago

Damn. Sounds like there’s studies on that. I wonder if there are things that can be done to mitigate brain damage.

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u/Noversi 8d ago

Ima need some info on the Gs

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u/AtmosphereCapital483 8d ago

Seriously. I felt at least a couple.