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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.
When an aircraft bolters on a United States Navy carrier, the Landing Signal Officer (LSO) often transmits "bolter, bolter, bolter" over the radio. United States Navy LSOs grade each carrier landing attempt on a scale of 0–5. [5] Assuming the approach was safe and at least average, a bolter is graded as 2.5. [5]
The landing signal officer (LSO) is a qualified, experienced pilot who is responsible for the visual control of aircraft in the terminal phase of the approach immediately prior to landing. LSOs ensure that approaching aircraft are properly configured, and they monitor aircraft glidepath angle, altitude, and lineup.
Squier became executive officer to the Chief Signal Officer, Brigadier General James Allen, in July 1907, and immediately convinced Allen to create an aviation entity within the Signal Corps. [2] The Aeronautical Division, Signal Corps, consisting at its inception of one officer and two enlisted men, began operation on August 1, 1907.
LPA – Landing, Personnel, Attack, class/type of ship. LPH – Landing, Personnel, Helicopter, class/type of ship. LPO – Leading Petty Officer; LPOD – Last Plane On Deck; LRAD – Long Range Acoustic Device; LS – Logistics Specialist; LSD – Landing Ship, Dock, class/type of ship. LSO – Landing Signal Officer; LST – Landing Ship ...
Then, at dusk, Admiral Mitscher dispatched an all-carrier attack after the retreating enemy fleet. The night recovery of the returning planes was accomplished amid considerable confusion. Reportedly, a Japanese carrier plane attempted a landing approach on San Jacinto, only to be waved off by the landing signal officer because its hook was not ...
McCampbell while serving as a landing signal officer on board USS Wasp during Operation Bowery. He is signalling to a pilot about to take off, May 1942 [3] McCampbell served as a landing signal officer (LSO) from May 1940, surviving the sinking of the carrier USS Wasp (CV-7) by a Japanese submarine near Guadalcanal on September 15, 1942. [4]
English: U.S. Navy Lieutenant Michael F. Jordan (center), Landing Signal Officer of Carrier Air Wing 7 (CVW-7), and Lt. Mike Curtain, Fighter Squadron 102 (VF-102) LSO controlling, and two other landing signal personnel, man their stations during aircraft recovery on board the carrier USS Independence (CV-62). The carrier was operating in the ...