Tag Archives: Pilot Landing Aid Television system

Taken during Operation Desert Storm on board USS Saratoga (CV-60), the shocking video in this post-show is a VAW-125 Tigertails E-2C Hawkeye sliding on the oily flight deck while taxing aft to the waist catapults. While sliding on the flight deck, the E-2C cut off the nose of an F-14 …

Landing a plane on the deck of an aircraft carrier is one of the most dangerous and amazing daily activities facing pilots and deck crew. It also instructs pilots how to avoid them and what emergency ejection or ditching procedures to follow in case they do occur. A barrier landing, …