It was a very unique situation with the evacuation of South Vietnam. Numerous helicopters were swarming to the Midway to evacuate as many people as they could. When some of them couldn't find a spot to land on, they ditched next to the carrier. I don't think there was a lot of method to the madness that day and a lot of normal and safe procedures went by the wayside.
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Frequent Wind
- Thread starter Mumbles
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That's why God made ESSMs (or CIWS).
Gotcha... that makes sense. It's amazing that in the midst of all that madness, people on board thought to get both pictures and a video of the event. I'm glad they did too--it's pretty amazing to look at.
rrpilot
Member
If we know it's coming.....just saying......
This reminds me of meeting a man back in 2001 KFWN in Sussex where I earned my private pilot rating, he told me he worked for a contractor that did work with the Navy regarding the threat of light aircraft. According to this guy he flew a Bede BD-5 as an 'aggressor' against Carrier Battle Groups with the goal being to see if he was intercepted or not, when I asked him how he made out he wouldn't tell me...very mysterious,lol.
I have no idea if he was full of crap or not, I was so new to aviation then I pretty much would have believed any somewhat reasonable story that didn't have characters named Maverick or Goose,lol, anybody ever hear of this kinda thing?...probably a dumb question since I assume if true it would be classified..
Clux4
Banned
If we know it's coming.....just saying......
We are not even talking about a ship that is pier side.
