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Subdeacon Joe

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Amazing landing. Spent two tours on the flight deck of an attack carrier helping launch and recovery operations. Not all landings are that successful.

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Considering all the less than optimal conditions they work in, I'm surprised they don't have a lot more "incidents".

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How often does this happen, that they had fabricated a jackstand for this specific purpose?

If you need to do maintenance on the gear, tires, hydraulics or whatever, you need a stand. That's what it's for. Pretty smart thinking to use it in an emergency.

 

VTOL. No tail hook? No nose gear? No problem. ;)

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How often does this happen, that they had fabricated a jackstand for this specific purpose?

 

Given what it would cost to repair the AC and how inexpensive the stand is I am sure that even if it was only needed once they would have one. When I was in the Navy we had a lot of specialty stands that were only used once every couple of years.

 

Harriers are quite complicated and when in the VTO/VL mode even minor issues can be next to impossible to recover from.

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So I guess you could say that if God had wanted man to fly, he would have given him wings, a tail hook and

a nose landing gear?

 

Only if he wanted them to land properly. ;)

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