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Mumbles

Mumbles

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This is in response to the guy that asked about the Cessna emergency landing at Brunswick:
I think that this is the most incredible story of an emergency Cessna landing on a floating U.S. base....

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Pleas...g+of+a+two-seat+Cessna--with+a...-a0209404848

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This was an amazingly brave Father and Family...
 
I believe that aircraft is now at the Naval Aviation Museum.

Edit: Just noticed it says that near the bottom of the link.......
 
I was just thinking/hoping that the air boss must have ordered the arresting gear stripped....I had to go back and look at the first pic....he did!
 
I was thinking about landing aboard the U.S.S. KittyHawk (now decommed) in a 172 up in Bremerton, WA. But then I decided it wouldn't be worth my freedom.
 
Mumbles said:
I was just thinking/hoping that the air boss must have ordered the arresting gear stripped....I had to go back and look at the first pic....he did!
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Either that or it was already stripped since the whole deck was clobbered with helos. So many in fact, they were throwing them overboard.

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USS Midway before things got crazy:

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Sure is a glorious sight, a flight deck full of helos with no pointy noses to be seen! Bring a tear to a man's eye.

And here's the O-1 today (in the Naval Aviation Museum as someone mentioned):

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They're rigged here...

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and these are unbelieveable:

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How did these F-5s and Tweets trap aboard?? :)

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Wikipedia has a decent bit on it (taken with a grain of salt). In it they say that the wires were stripped (good call Mumbles) to take the O-1 on board.

It also says that Midway went to Thailand after the evac and the CH-53s ferried the FW a/c on board.
 
Mumbles said:
This is in response to the guy that asked about the Cessna emergency landing at Brunswick:
I think that this is the most incredible story of an emergency Cessna landing on a floating U.S. base....
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Yup, that was me who started that thread, This is a cool story can't believe I never heard of it, thanks for posting it!

I think it was Barry Schiff who wrote an article in AOPA magazine a few years ago about landing his Cessna on a carrier, all the training and hoops he had to jump through to get permission to do it...of course in the last paragraph it's all revealed to be a chronicle of a recent dream he had...:)
 
This might be a ridiculous question, but if something like this were to happen today, how would it be handled? My guess would be that with the much higher risk of explosives planted in the plane, it wouldn't be allowed to land, but I could be way off. What do you guys think?
 
If anything comes remotely close to a carrier without the proper IFF codes it will be intercepted.
 
Yeah that's what I figured.

This is quite an amazing story though--too bad it probably won't ever happen again in my generation.
 
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