Desertdaddy
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Joined: 7/17/2004 From: Tampa, FL Status: offline
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Thanks X, a much better response then I could ever have typed up. quote:
ORIGINAL: strawbuk Hmm... 1 - so someone just happend to be videoing the landing did they? Standard practice to help training? Or deck crew do it just in case they can make £50 off 'USN's Craziest Videos' show? Each service has a Rating/MOS or Specialty Code for combat camera. It’s that person’s job to take pictures of everything that happens. That’s where much of the more mundane pictures of military operations come from. The press will show you all the sensational and gory bits about war, A combat camera man/person will take pictures of the mechanic fixing a flat tire, the cook serving food (after the VIP has left) or the combat team taking enemy fire. They take pictures for history not headlines Hmm 2 - missile not fired we agree, so flew off when ac arrrested? So a. why fins not bent by hitting deck b. why going in straight line, despite being in contact with deck (too low speed for fins to have effect?), The sidewinder missile in the pictures might look small (compared to an ICBM) but it’s really a fairly stout well-constructed weapon system. Check out this web page for lots of pictures of sidewinders: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/aim-9-pics.htm Hmm 3 why in second shot is front of missile now off the deck? Again , not fired so why moving fast enough to 'fly' . I know those boys land fast but not THAT fast. See X's post about speed and physics Hmm 4 'When an AIM-9L/M missile fires its motor you will know it.' so not gone off. But just enough 'smoke' in picture to suggest a fired missile to uninformed - where is that smoke coming from so convienently from tail pipe? Check out the web page indicated about, it has cool photo of sidewinder just after being fired from a F/A-18, cool flames Hmm 5 - expert opinion/advice please - if arresting, where is wire/hook? Would still be in shot if missile just 'jerked off'? A tail hook is at the rear of the plane. The rear of the plane is not fully in frame. Expert on tail hooks not needed for this one. Hmm 6 - the really paranoid may wish to start assessing the relationship of the ac and missile shadows (but I may be pushing that). The shadows look like the sun is high in the sky, perhaps midday or a few hours either side of noon on first picture. Second picture shadow looks about the same. I’m by no means a weatherman, astronomer, astrologer (or what ever a person who studies the sun is called), but I am a sun worshiper (I love the beach). BOGUS! Oh well...
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