{"id":193475,"date":"2008-12-13T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/13\/shipborne-rolling-vertical-landing-aid-demonstrated\/"},"modified":"2008-12-13T07:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T12:12:00","slug":"shipborne-rolling-vertical-landing-aid-demonstrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/13\/shipborne-rolling-vertical-landing-aid-demonstrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipborne Rolling Vertical Landing Aid Demonstrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Quinetiq have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/12\/08\/319734\/qinetiq-led-team-demonstrates-carrier-landing-system-for.html\">demonstrated a landing aid for SRVL<\/a> on the HMS Illustrious.<\/p>\n<p>The idea behind shipborne rolling vertical landing is that an F-35 can return to deck in forward flight, with some of the lift coming from the wings, and some from the lift fan, which would allow for greater &#8220;bring&#8221; back in terms of weapons loads, and less wear and tear on the engine:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>For the latest trial, a demonstration visual landing aid dubbed a &#8220;Bedford array&#8221; was installed in the port catwalk adjacent to Illustrious&#8217;s flight deck. Taking inputs from inertial references to stabilise against deck motions, this is combined with a ship-referenced velocity vector in a helmet-mounted display to enable a pilot to fly an accurate approach to the deck on a constant glidepath. A second lighting array was rigged on the carrier&#8217;s flight deck, and was used during a parallel evaluation of its visual acuity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Me, I&#8217;m dubious.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of making a rolling landing on an aircraft carrier with a 60,000 lb aircraft without an arrester hook seems to me to be a dicey proposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Quinetiq have demonstrated a landing aid for SRVL on the HMS Illustrious. The idea behind shipborne rolling vertical landing is that an F-35 can return to deck in forward flight, with some of the lift coming from the wings, and some from the lift fan, which would allow for greater &#8220;bring&#8221; back &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1161,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-naval","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}