Oh, that's easy... you just taxi out to the end of the runway, apply the brakes, apply afterburner and adjustthe stick until you're balanced on the rear wheels...Bet those Air Force guys can't do that!!! *:-*John

Naaahhh, it's the kid driving the aircraft carrier that is "so good." -- "All ahead full, 150 knots" :-lol The hurricane force winds directly down the deck also help. http://ftp.avsim.com/dcforum/Images/silly.gifRegards,http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jsnyder99/sigs/gaphoto.jpg | [LINK:www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?photographersearch=Jeffrey%20L.%20Snyder&distinct_entry=true|AIRLINERS.NET PHOTOS] [link:www.biblegateway.com/bgaudio/english/NIV/Max%20McLean/RM/bgaudio.pl?selection=1|AUDIO BIBLE] ] [email protected][/font

>Bet those Air Force guys can't do that!!!As has been demostrated many times in the past through exchange programs, AF pilots can and do "do that". Nothing that the right amount of training can't teach.Dave

That's very interesting. But, what happens next?:-)Pete

Haha, it's not the "getting off" part, it's the "getting back on" partthat builds up a thrist.

Stephen Coonts is a really good author of carrier operations in "The Intruders" and "Flight of the Intruder". Very very good reading :-)http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/edenw/FS_..._banner_je2.jpg Long Live General Aviation!

Doolittle's raid in WWII...B-25's off of a carrier piloted by USAAF pilots....http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/...c-42/dooltl.htm

Completely different thing. These guys are actually taking off, the Navy jock was balancing his plane motionless on one wheel (grin)!Jaap Verduijn.

"You know what they say about the Navy, they're a lower form of Marine life"......Air Force pilot parting comment to a room full of Naval aviators during Cope Thunder 90/2 Clark Airbase, Philippines

I was talking to an F14 driver at the local airshow a few years ago and was asking him about taking off and landing on the carriers. He said landing wasn't an issue, the takeoff was the rough part with the jolt off the deck!!ChrisFlight Instrutor when its VFRNavajo Cheiftain FO when its IFR