Sea King landing at sea....

I figured as soon as the deck was close to level he was going to plant that big girl....sure enough. WHAM! He dropped that thing like a rock
 
I figured as soon as the deck was close to level he was going to plant that big girl....sure enough. WHAM! He dropped that thing like a rock

I can see the convo after, the pilot talking to the crew chief: "Hey, Smith, you might wanna check out that landing gear....and the airframe"
 
This is the only view I want of a helo.
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Cool video. Appeared gentler than what I was shown.
Flying a UH60 sim with a CW2 preparing to do live ship quals, the method was basically get over it higher than I thought and when it's near level dump all collective and slam onto the deck. He said the Navy and CG birds gear was higher rate to deal with it and when Army birds did it usually parts had to be brought out.
I got to try, tailwheel was off the pad and in the drink we would've gone. Don't recall the ship we were simulating, aft pad just a few meters longer than a Blackhawk with a very tall vertical structure in front of it, guys doing it for real are very skilled no doubt about it.
 
Cool video. Appeared gentler than what I was shown.
Flying a UH60 sim with a CW2 preparing to do live ship quals, the method was basically get over it higher than I thought and when it's near level dump all collective and slam onto the deck. He said the Navy and CG birds gear was higher rate to deal with it and when Army birds did it usually parts had to be brought out.
I got to try, tailwheel was off the pad and in the drink we would've gone. Don't recall the ship we were simulating, aft pad just a few meters longer than a Blackhawk with a very tall vertical structure in front of it, guys doing it for real are very skilled no doubt about it.

<----not an aviator (but was part of aircrew when I got my commission). I landed many a time aboard ship, 99% of the time it was fine. But after the Recon Marines went overboard (see below video), it was always a high pucker factor for me.

 
<----not an aviator (but was part of aircrew when I got my commission). I landed many a time aboard ship, 99% of the time it was fine. But after the Recon Marines went overboard (see below video), it was always a high pucker factor for me.



Looks like someone was hotdoggin it to me.

Too low, too hot.


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Looks like someone was hotdoggin it to me.

Too low, too hot.


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I don't fully recall all the details. I think the Marines were going through a pre-deployment cert and they were doing a ship take-down. It sure scared the piss out of us. I never really took the helo dunker training seriously until then; after that I was the most attentive sailor ever.
 
I don't fully recall all the details. I think the Marines were going through a pre-deployment cert and they were doing a ship take-down. It sure scared the piss out of us. I never really took the helo dunker training seriously until then; after that I was the most attentive sailor ever.

Amen on the helo dunker.

Thx for the context, my SERE partner was a Phrog pilot, they don’t look like they are all that nimble, except these crazy bastards:



The video title says Chinook, they could stand a recce class or two.


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@sr30 , I read somewhere that one of the Marines who lived took his Strider knife (afterward everyone wanted one; hell, I still do!), as the helo was sinking transmission side down, calmly cutting the webbing, then cut his 782 gear (personal go-to-war gear) to cut weight, found the hell hole, swam out. He left the helo an estimated 75 feet down, exhaling fully on his way to the surface so as to not get a big-ass bubble and get bent. He was a stud.

My personal bad experience in a -46 was a hard landing on a beach; I got a compression fracture, most of the Marines got pretty hurt.
 
@sr30 , I read somewhere that one of the Marines who lived took his Strider knife (afterward everyone wanted one; hell, I still do!), as the helo was sinking transmission side down, calmly cutting the webbing, then cut his 782 gear (personal go-to-war gear) to cut weight, found the hell hole, swam out. He left the helo an estimated 75 feet down, exhaling fully on his way to the surface so as to not get a big-ass bubble and get bent. He was a stud.

My personal bad experience in a -46 was a hard landing on a beach; I got a compression fracture, most of the Marines got pretty hurt.

Damn. Just damn.


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As a hs kid at Nas Jax, the base pool had the jet dunker in it. One weekend it wasn't secured and we tried it out... I don't ever want to do that for real...
 
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@sr30 , I read somewhere that one of the Marines who lived took his Strider knife (afterward everyone wanted one; hell, I still do!), as the helo was sinking transmission side down, calmly cutting the webbing, then cut his 782 gear (personal go-to-war gear) to cut weight, found the hell hole, swam out. He left the helo an estimated 75 feet down, exhaling fully on his way to the surface so as to not get a big-ass bubble and get bent. He was a stud.

My personal bad experience in a -46 was a hard landing on a beach; I got a compression fracture, most of the Marines got pretty hurt.

Only have to blow if you inhale compressed air underwater ie breathing with a bail out bottle. If he was breath holding the whole time then the air in his lungs was being compressed as he went deeper. During ascent the gas volume would return to normal upon surfacing.

CD
 
Only have to blow if you inhale compressed air underwater ie breathing with a bail out bottle. If he was breath holding the whole time then the air in his lungs was being compressed as he went deeper. During ascent the gas volume would return to normal upon surfacing.

CD

It was a long time ago and I can't recall all the details; I think he had sucked down most of a bail-out bottle at some point.

I went to combat dive school and worked in hyperbarics/dive medicine, so familiar with the physics. That Marine was locked-on, though, and went through procedures calm as a cucumber. I guess that was my point.
 
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