This video is not as exciting as landings on an aircraft carrier, but it is different than anything you may have seen before. I am sending it so you can get an idea of the noise levels I lived with for 2 cruises in 2 years working on the Kitty Hawk flight deck during launches 7 days a week, 12 hours a day. The carrier in the video is the USS Eisenhower CVN-69.
The green shirt sailors have a dangerous job working under those planes while the engines are turning up toward full power while getting set on the catapults. I noticed now they have steel rods that hook the nose gear to the catapults to launch, which may be safer than the old wire cables. With the old steel cables those guys would have to literally jump on them to ensure the cables were tight enough to launch the plane properly. If the cable was too loose, it would snap when the catapult fired and the jet would go rolling down the deck with no hope of lifting up off the deck. Now with the steel rods there would seem to be no chance of them snapping as they could before.
Late in the video you can see the cat walks that are over the deck edge, just hanging there and you can see the ocean about 80 feet below, not something you want to look through if you have a touch of vertigo.
The green shirt sailors have a dangerous job working under those planes while the engines are turning up toward full power while getting set on the catapults. I noticed now they have steel rods that hook the nose gear to the catapults to launch, which may be safer than the old wire cables. With the old steel cables those guys would have to literally jump on them to ensure the cables were tight enough to launch the plane properly. If the cable was too loose, it would snap when the catapult fired and the jet would go rolling down the deck with no hope of lifting up off the deck. Now with the steel rods there would seem to be no chance of them snapping as they could before.
Late in the video you can see the cat walks that are over the deck edge, just hanging there and you can see the ocean about 80 feet below, not something you want to look through if you have a touch of vertigo.
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