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Aircraft carrier tailhook cable snaps.
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Both of the main characters in this video were in full superhero mode. The pilot ejecting just as he's going over the edge and the dude in yellow double jumping a cable that could probably cut him in half. Just amazing and definitely interesting as fk.
\nAnd this is why you skip rope, kids. He's a double dutch master.
\nI used to skip rope like you, but then I took a cable to the knees.\u00a0
\nBut then a cable took my knees*
\nThat better be his callsign after this.
\nA skipper, you could say
\nIt wouldn't have cut him in half... just made him shorter by a foot or two. /s
\nFitty men
\nTwo feet to be exact. But I can't confirm the height.
\nIf it\u2019s a U.S. carrier, I believe there\u2019s three sequential cables. That would mean the pilot overflew the first two and snapped the third. The saying is no aircraft crash results from a single failure and that would hold true here.
\nIn the video, it looks like the aircraft snagged the fourth cable, which would mean he was a bit above glideslope or the number three was out of service for some reason and the pilot was going for the fourth cable.
\n\nThe earlier Nimitz class carriers, including the Washington, have four cables, but they eventually went back to three. I'm not sure which was the first to go back to three, but I know the Bush (CVN-77) has three. For comparison, the USS Midway had three cables.
\nIf the tailhook itself breaks - wouldn't that be a single point of failure??
\n2nd point of failure in that case would probably be up the materials/quality control/maintenance chain - or poor engineering.
\nJust imagine. You managed to successfully fly around all the pixels during the landing process and then something like that happens! /s
\nI think mithbusters debunked this idea and this video specifically, a cabbie going at that speed can't cut you in half, but will crush your bones causing internal bruising and bleeding, that will end you in a few hours up to minutes
\nFair enough. But still, his ninja skills were on full display that day. That cable probably damages his leg bones pretty brutally if he doesn't clear it
\nInsane situational awareness
\nMy ADD brain would've been thinking about the show i was watching last night. Or how i can stack some boxes in a pleasing order.
\nFellow ADHDer here: Nah, not on an active runway you wouldn't. It's the redeeming quality of the Syndrome. Double the focus in high stress situations
\nSo long as you remember they're high stress. Routine is a double edged bastard to us.
\nDefinitely but I think your part of the responsibility for a 20 ton, 35 million dollar killing machine barreling towards you at 180 knots, 25 feet away from you should reliably put you into gear every time lol
\nShit, I ain't gonna disagree.
\nThe guy in yellow used a pixel perfect double jump to avoid being killed.
\nPerfect I-Frames
\nDefinitely a souls player
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\nIt happens. They train for it. It looks like just a soft rope but that\u2019s a 1\u201d steel cable whipping around.
\nThe Devil\u2019s Jump Rope
\nEven a soft rope breaking under tension will still kill you. Being near the lines when a ship is tied up to the dock is by far the most dangerous part of being a mariner. Snapped mooring lines hurt/kill a lot of people.
\nIf I remember my Navy training, its the synthetic lines that are most dangerous. Manila lines "sing" when under tension, they make a lot of noise before breaking, giving ample warning. But synthetic lines snap without any warning.
\n\nThey'll both amputate your torso from your legs if they get ya, but manila lines give you some warning.
\nYou\u2019re talking about the stretch energy in the line. Synthetic rope is like an elastic band or a spring. It stores a lot of energy that has to go somewhere when it snaps. It goes into speed. Synthetic line snaps back at incredibly high speeds. \u201cLike a gunshot\u201d isn\u2019t far off.
\n\nSteel doesn\u2019t stretch much so it doesn\u2019t store energy well. And those arresting engines limit the tension in the line, so there isn\u2019t the kind of stored energy you would find in a mooring line about to snap.
\n\nStill, steel is heavy. That cable bouncing back down the deck at 60 mph probably weighs 600 lbs.
\nSteel cable may not stretch as much as synthetic rope but it will definitely snapback with massive force, seen strops break while hauling stuff onboard in the offshore industry sending 30-32mm wire with a hook through windows and aluminium bulkheads with ease.
\nit doesn't stretch much but due to its stretch resistance that stretch can be stronger
\nEven a soft rope at such tension will cut you to pieces.
\nyep I was stationed on the Enterprise at this time. It was the scuttlebutt all over the ship. Thank god I never had to deal with this or do a FOD walk down again.
\nJumper is a Break/Brake Dancer\u00a0
\nFeels like a safety bollard or two might be great for deck operations. Pull it up, pin it in, then fold it down when done.
\nThat yellow shirt is a ninja or some sort of anime character with that reaction time!
\n"Not once, but twice!"\u00a0
\nAnd everyone laughed at him when he played jump rope with the girls at school
\nI know, it looks like a DBZ fight, even slowed down!
\nBro heard John Denver playing and knew to jump! LOOK FOR THE SIGNS! Lmao
\nThat or he heard House of Pain and knew to jump around, lest he Everlast!
\nHahahahahahahahahahaha
\nWith that double jump, I think he was listening to Kriss kross
\nI know right\u203d That's insane
\nLieutenant hopscotch saved his legs.
\nI was an ABE in the navy I did this job it\u2019s crazy dangerous
\nIs the jet ok?
\nIt ded.
\nProbably crashed into the ocean and retrieve later
\nIf it wasn't retrieved that would be a super cool find a couple millennia into the future
\nIt's doing just fine at 3000ft.
\n\nBelow.
\nHow many atmospheres of pressure is that?\u00a0
\nWell it\u2019s a spaceship, so I\u2019d say anywhere between zero and one
\nShoes are still on.
\nWhat documentary is this from, if anyone knows?
\nLanding throttled up is for missed cables. In the event of a broken cable the aircraft will not be able to take off again because the arresting cable would have slowed the aircraft down despite being at full throttle. There simply isn\u2019t enough flight deck left to regain the lost speed.
\nI think the new policy for navy pilots is to remain full throttle until arresting cable fully stopped the aircraft. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
\nI think you're right, in case they don't get caught or this exact scenario. The cable should be able to stop them even at landing speed, so the pilot should keep enough speed to lift off and go back around.
\nI'm aware of this rule but he probably got snagged and couldn't get loose from the cable.
\nMy recollection from something I saw or read (at least 20 years ago) is that full throttle is std procedure until full stop has been obtained. Hell, I think you can even see it in Top Gun.
\nThat\u2019s what my dad told us (his squadron did the flying in Top Gun)
\n\nI was going to send this to him and ask if he could tell why the pilot wasn\u2019t able to take off again
\nWould that have helped? The cable slowed the plane down to a relative crawl before snapping. The Hornet probably would not have had enough runway to reach takeoff speed. It would have just hit the water a few hundred feet further away from the ship.
\nCorrect.
\nGuys playing jump rope with his life
\nSomeone please correct me if I'm wrong but I thought jets were supposed to go full throttle upon landing for situations just like this so that they can immediately take off again and not end up in the water?
\nits for if they miss the cable not if the cable snaps, after they catch the cable no reason to keep the throttle up
\nI've also learnt this. DCS \ud83e\udd18
\n\nCan anyone explain why that didn't happen here?
\nYou would think the personnel on deck would be standing behind something solid in case the cable does snap.
\nThe man in yellow needs a fucking raise.
\nAngry potential energy
\nInsane
\nFun fact, I used to work with people who did autopilot software for FA-18s. They came out with a design to assist with landing on carriers and it was so accurate that they were wearing out these cables 10x faster than normal, because they would hit the same spot every single time.
\nEjector seats often cause spinal compression injuries. But that is obviously much better than death.
\nYellow guy doesn\u2019t get pay enough for this bullshit.
\nIf Star Trek taught me anything, it's the yellow shirt that saved him. If he was in a red shirt...
\nDude in yellow definitely has spider senses. Won at the worlds most dangerous jump rope game!
\n
Oooops
\nMy brother was a medic on a carrier. Cable snapped and took off a marines leg just above the knee. He said it sliced it clean, no ragged edges at all. Crazy was all the kinetic energy can do!
\nWow that guy is one lucky dude
\nAt least the ejection seat worked properly. I wonder how it missed inspection
\nYour spinal injuries are not service related\u201d
\nWhat exactly is that cable? Why is on the floor like that?\nReddit: downvotes the guy asking the question that teaches you guys something with another guy slam dunking the answer
\nThere are four steel cables about 3cm in diameter to \u201carrest\u201d the landing aircraft. All four are held up a few inches so the aircraft\u2019s tail hook will snag it securely as it goes by at 100+ knots.
\n\nThe ends of the arresting cables go into the deck and wind around big spools of extra cable. When the aircraft hooks one this extra cable pays out onto the deck. The spools are connected to massive brake systems called arresting engines. These absorb the considerable kinetic energy of the plane. It\u2019s intense.
\n\nWhen the plane\u2019s tail hook disengages motors reel in the extra cable and the arresting wire resumes its position in the array. It only takes a few seconds.
\n\nThis landing system is why you don\u2019t see many successful transitions of Air Force aircraft to Navy use. The tail hook loads would rip a typical Air Force plane in half. Navy planes pay a small weight penalty because their structures are designed from scratch to take these loads.
\nWould Air Force jets have to land vertically on an aircraft carrier? Probably limits the number of aircraft that can do that.
\nThe air force expects pristine 10,000 foot runways. I don't think they have a single vehicle that lands vertically.
\n\nThe Army is almost pure VTOL with helicopters, and the Navy has a few VTOL jets in addition to their helicopters because they tend to operate forward from mud patches.
\nIn case people don't know there's a series of cables that jets landing on carriers have to hook into in order to assist them stopping because the carrier can't be long enough to allow a jet to come to a complete stop on their own usually. The cables also make landing faster so they can be faster at operations in general.
\n\nModern aircraft are also launched by a system in the first place.
\n\nFinally it used to be pilots would make bets about hitting which cable. Ideally they should hit the middle. These days US jets have an automatic landing system that can hit the cable far more consistently so they make bets about missing the cable. They still have to complete so many non assisted landings to be carrier qualified and probably to maintain it. Because you never know.
\nTo stop the airplane fastee because the run way on aircraft carrier is short.
\n?? It's the thing that stops the plane?
\nYou should check out ww2 carrier landings much more crazy
\nIg you know all about aircraft carrier tailhooks the way you make it sound so obvious. So there\u2019s a cable that supposed to help the plane stop? Cool
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\nAsk Elon
\nNo dude I know nothing about nothing. It is just very obviously a cable that stops the plane. It literally mentions that it has a hook on the back of the plane to catch it. Trying to downvote me and sarcastically respond why?
\nNaw man it\u2019s not obvious incase you can\u2019t tell by someone asking a question. Jesus you treat kids like this too or do you think cus I\u2019m old you can just talk to me like that? Reddit eh
\nMost people with an iq above room temp know there is a cable that helps stop the plane.
\nCome on, they asked a perfectly valid question.
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\nGoat
\nThere\u2019s like four that are there to catch the plane. Deck is too short to take off or land on their own so they have cables to catch them when landing and a steam (or electromagnetic on the latest and greatest) launcher to assist with takeoff
\nQuick or dead.
\niron maiden song
\nSnake eyes in heaven
\nSKIP-IT, SKIP-IT
\nI didn't remember this scene from Top Gun.
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It must have had an engine failure prior to landing. When planes are landing on a carrier they go full throttle incase they miss the cable and have to try again.
\nThe jet did not miss the cable. The cable slowed the jet considerably and then snapped.
\nThey go full throttle in case they are a bolter, meaning they failed to snag one of the four cables. The pilot wouldn't feel the deceleration, so they can pull up and go around. This guy did snag, and slowed as you noted. They'll typically chop the throttles as soon as they feel the plane slow to a stop, but this one obviously didn't, and rolled right off the bow! That would be a scary thought, pulling the ejection handle to punch out knowing you might get a 100,000 ton aircraft carrier enema because they're usually hauling ass into the wind to increase windspeed down the deck for landing (and taking off too...)
\nI know how it works, just explaining to MrHaad there.
\nOK.... No ill intent meant...
\nMrHaad
\nSorry not wearing my glasses. Will fix
\nIt looks like the cable snapped after it had slowed down the plane already. There was not enough speed (and ramp left) even with full throttle.
\nI might be wrong about the plane having an engine failure, but it looks like they overshot their mark
\nThere are only 4 cables; if he hit one of them, he didn't overshoot.
\n\nAviators are graded on their traps. They get the highest grade (OK 3) by hitting the #3 wire with only minimum deviations.
\nThat\u2019s what I was thinking too
\nBad date for planes
\ndouble dutch USMC style.
\nthis is some black mesa tram voice
\n9/11/03
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