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Fairey III-F aircraft landing on board British aircraft carrier HMS Furious circa early 1930s. Arresting gear wires are visible above the flight deck. Arresting cable systems were invented by Hugh Robinson [when?] and were used by Eugene Ely on his first landing on a ship—the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania, on 18 January 1911.
Aircraft catching the wire while landing on an aircraft carrier A tailhook , arresting hook , or arrester hook is a device attached to the empennage (rear) of some military fixed-wing aircraft . The hook is used to achieve rapid deceleration during routine landings aboard aircraft carrier flight decks at sea, or during emergency landings or ...
An F/A-18C Hornet that has failed to engage an arrestor wire on the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis and is attempting to bolter. The British-developed angled flight deck solved the problem of aircraft that failed to engage an arrestor wire, and created the routine option for aircraft to bolter. [2]
Spanning 1,092 feet long — three times the length of a football field — Nimitz-class warships are the largest aircraft carriers.
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Patricia Denkler (born October 4, 1952) is a former American naval aviator.She was the first woman to land a plane on an aircraft carrier. [1]U.S. Navy Lt. Patricia A. Denkler, assigned to Training Squadron 4 (VT-4), performs a preflight check on a Douglas TA-4J Skyhawk aircraft at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida (US), in 1982.
HMS Argus was a British aircraft carrier that served in the Royal Navy from 1918 to 1944. She was converted from an ocean liner that was under construction when the First World War began and became the first aircraft carrier with a full-length flight deck that allowed wheeled aircraft to take off and land.
The final signal was "the cut" (a slashing motion at the throat) ordering the pilot to reduce power and land the aircraft. In a properly executed landing, the aircraft's tailhook snagged an arresting wire that brought the plane to a halt. A "waveoff" was a mandatory order to abort the landing and go around for another attempt.