Carrier deck landings.............the way it used to be.

[grumpyoldb]

30min vid showing deck ops with Sea Vixens and Scimitars. Shows how the cat and the arrester work.



Looks like bl**dy hard work to me.

 

[morse1001]

The good old days, when we had both a Navy and a Fleet air Arm!

 

[SORRY CJ]

My God.......The Fish Heads loved their berets...lol

SCJ

 

[Teh Wal]

Looks like bl**dy hard work to me.

Aye, and that was in good weather, can you imagine it in the teeth of a mid atlantic winter storm... bloomin' lineys these days dont know they're born! ::
Fantastic facial hair at 27:42 DT_Xtremez_28:

And for those that are interested, and who may remember a little fisticuffs in 1982, the flat-top is HMS Hermes. She'd been in service for less than a year in 1960 and only cost 19 million quid to build. She's still in service with the Indian navy... maybe we can buy her back!! And some Leaping Heaps to go on her!! DT_Xtremez_41:

 

[Tashy_Man]

Bloody typical, all that time to put up the barrier, then take it down again !

Nice find though and def one for the history books as we'll never have that many fixed wing aircraft at sea again...

Crack on..................DT_Xtremez_09:

 

[Barch]

Noticed how the launch strop was sacrificed on each catapult launch.

 

[mummymonkey]

Gloves not invented in 1960 then? DT_Xtremez_22:

 

[grumpyoldb]

Gloves not invented in 1960 then? DT_Xtremez_22:

It was just H and S hadn't been thought necessary. We were lucky if we got barrier cream.
Of course, men were men in those day's........................ DT_Xtremez_42:

 

[Ex-Bay]

Noticed how the launch strop was sacrificed on each catapult launch.

I remember a "Tomorrow's World" where Raymond Baxter was on a carrier and mentioned that the strop cost about £7 each.

 

[Barch]

I remember a "Tomorrow's World" where Raymond Baxter was on a carrier and mentioned that the strop cost about £7 each.

Lets hope the new carriers don't use the same system because at todays prices they will probably cost hundreds of pounds each and they will only scale 2 per aircraft.

 

[grumpyoldb]

Lets hope the new carriers don't use the same system because at todays prices they will probably cost hundreds of pounds each and they will only scale 2 per aircraft.

It's OK. They're going to re-use the red rubber bands that the postman drops on my drive every morning.

 

[topstop]

Lets hope the new carriers don't use the same system because at todays prices they will probably cost hundreds of pounds each and they will only scale 2 per aircraft.

The bits sticking out at the front of the cats caught the strops on the Ark

 

[vim_fuego]

Those deck handling type chaps must have been as fit as butchers dogs...It's rare that I saw ANY liney running that quickly around the place unless there was a rumour of galley food to be ratted...