But they are fun to watch. I spent a couple hours on the Nimitz one
night several years ago watching night flight operations... totally
mesmerized. But it was a little disappointing in one respect. I'd seen
films of F-14s during night takeoffs with long blue flame tails blasting
out from the afterburners. But not from F/A-18s. Nothing visible at
all until the angle was such that you could look up the pipe. Maybe
there's enough power that afterburner isn't required for takeoff with
that aircraft? But the catapults were certainly working. I know
because I was trying to sleep not far away. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Chris Barker wrote:
> :-)
>
> It's extremely unlikely that there would be a battle going on around a
> carrier, Acer, but night-time carrier landings are, I gather much too
> exciting for the average chap!
>
> Chris
>
> On 24 Jan 2009, at 02:46, siddiq@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> some book I was reading, about aircraft carrier operations... the
>> author/pilot had mentioned that the three good things in life were 1.
>> a good shit, 2. a good orgasm, and 3. a good landing. he went on to
>> mention that night time carrier ops during battle you could experience
>> all three at once.
>
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