Holy New Underwear !!!

That's an incredible recovery with a turboprop. We have the best pilots on the planet.

DHG1078 said:

They can easily rip a man in two. Its definitely a frightening thought.

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I've heard the exact same thing. I was USAF, but have had training with some Navy peeps.

Great Asp said:

Bet the landing gear was wet!

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Definitely had to touch the water, down that long off the deck. Dayum, helluva job by that crew.

Good percentage of the RedBull air races are ex-military and have 0 fear, I have no idea how they can keep it together so well. I about died just riding in a Blue Angel which is also a friend a while back #6 Jeff Kuss who sadly died in one, that low flying shit like 5 feet above the runway to straight vertical......... fun experience but no thanks lol. Praise the good pilots they are amazing.

HudsonFalcon said:

That's why they come in full power.

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Yep, if you ever pay attention they go WOT when they hit the deck just for this reason. AWAX is a big plane to be doing it though lol.

Almost had that with one of our Tomcats once, everyone puckered up.

fearthesnake said:

Definitely had to touch the water, down that long off the deck. Dayum, helluva job by that crew.

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I tried to zoom and enhance, pretty sure I either saw water falling off the landing gear or he was rolling coal.

That would be very scary!