Pitching Decks 180823

I have been aboard an aircraft carrier in a typhoon and remember being in a roll around desk chair that would slide from one end of our maintenance shop to the other side while waves were crashing over an 80 foot high flight deck. We had no landings during that typhoon, but with high seas even a 30 foot pitching deck can be nearly impossible to land on as you will see in the video.
      The video here is about aircraft landings on aircraft carriers. To fully appreciate this video I need to give you a little background. At a naval air station, there is a mile long or more runway for jets to land on. When a jet pilot lands on an aircraft carrier, there is just a perhaps 100 foot space with 4 arresting wires to stop the plane. It that is not enough, think about this; the jet is falling out of the sky at 160 mph and the deck is moving at 36.8 mph and in rough seas the deck can move 30 or more feet up or down every few seconds. I cannot imagine how anyone can set a jet down on the right spot under those conditions. The picture above shows what happens when the deck lifts when it is too late for a pilot to correct his landing.
      I may be obsessed with navy things, but I think it is interesting and I hope you do too.