Rami
April 18th, 2011, 19:47
Good evening...
Talk about a maddening experience. The HMS Illustrious is cruising off of Land's End doing 30 knots on her shakedown cruise, and you're to land on her decks for the first time in your Fairey Swordfish. Well, with the tail hook and full flaps down at 65% power, your approach speed is a shade over 55 knots.
It took me five bloody minutes to get to the carrier deck, watching that distance marker was like this...521...tick...tick...tock...tock...520, etc. Simply madness!
Talk about a maddening experience. The HMS Illustrious is cruising off of Land's End doing 30 knots on her shakedown cruise, and you're to land on her decks for the first time in your Fairey Swordfish. Well, with the tail hook and full flaps down at 65% power, your approach speed is a shade over 55 knots.
It took me five bloody minutes to get to the carrier deck, watching that distance marker was like this...521...tick...tick...tock...tock...520, etc. Simply madness!