David Fravor, CO of VFA-41, makes an impossible, last one in, night carrier landing

[majapahit]

I mentioned this in a post ones, that I saw a documentary about really bad weather night carrier landings a long time age, apparently this was the PBD series ‘Carrier’ first episode date, April, 2008.

 

Found a 18:20 min cut from that series uploaded to Youtube 2014 titled Pitching Decks.

 

At 11min ‘that’ night sortie starts where the CO, who apparently is CDR David Fravor, CO of VFA-41 Black Aces, also famous because of the recently disclosed 2004 Tic-Tac incident,

 

the sighting of a UFO captured by HUD camera , in NAVY speak an Anomalous Aerial Vehicle AAV, and David Fravor one of the two intercepting FA-18’s of the USS Nimitz group,

 

- The Pentagon Released New Documents About the 'Tic-Tac UFO'

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9k8kaz/the-pentagon-released-new-documents-about-the-tic-tac-ufo

 

joins in the night sortie.

 

 

At 16:12min in this YT, David Fravor is the last one out, David Fravor took the place of a junior female pilot ‘trust me, at the and of the night you will thank me for this’,

 

when all others are in, no more tankers flying around for helping out bolting jets, the evening started with 15 bolters and the deck apparently rising and falling 60 feet and the weather now so bad, the deck now also makes yaw movements.

 

Ace David Fravor (of course) makes an impossible (“how can he be there with the deck pitching?”) landing.

 

Pitching Decks US NAVY

Edited July 27, 2018 by majapahit

[meloco]

great post. thanks.