Warzone/The Drive: Video Supposedly Showing Harrowing F-35 Crash Aboard USS Carl Vinson Leaked
The video shows an F-35C slamming into the ship and careening down the landing area ablaze before falling into the water.
What appears to be a smartphone video of a monitor that is playing closed-circuit camera system footage of the January 24th crash of an F-35C aboard the USS Carl Vinson has emerged online. The carrier was sailing in the tumultuous South China Sea at the time that the jet from VFA-147, the 'Argonauts,' crashed during a landing attempt aboard the ship. This is the second video to emerge that has supposedly shown the landing attempt in question. However, this one, which includes the in-deck Pilot's Landing Aid Television (PLAT), as well as a video shot from the ship's Island Camera Room, gives us a full look at the actual incident, not just the moments leading up to it.
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2 comments:
A question to any naval aviators out there, this appears to be a ramp strike on a calm sunny day. From the other video from the fan tail the f-35 seems to struggle for power before the crash. Does the lightening II have the power to weight ratio for carrier operations? I am trying to think of the last carrier plane that was single engine and I am thinking late fifties and early sixties. Traditionally the navy’s air arm has been drawn to twin engine planes with updated power. I seem to remember the phantom was boosted over it’s Air Force cousins.
You can hit the ramp and still catch a cable. Don't know that stats on it.
Would a different ramp length and angle change the probability of catching a bouncing plane? Monte Carlo simulaiton?
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