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Rough Day at the Office

Long tine readers of Neptunus Lex probably remember a commenter, Spazsinbad, who apparently was a former Royal Australian Navy A-4G pilot. He always had interesting bits to add to the conversation.  Let’s take a look at one of his compatriots having a rough day. The A-4, in US Navy usage, operated handily from the supercarriers.…

Long tine readers of Neptunus Lex probably remember a commenter, Spazsinbad, who apparently was a former Royal Australian Navy A-4G pilot. He always had interesting bits to add to the conversation.  Let’s take a look at one of his compatriots having a rough day.

The A-4, in US Navy usage, operated handily from the supercarriers. And it was even quite at home on the modernized Essex class. But the Royal Australian Navy’s only carrier, HMAS Melbourne, was tiny! And there was simply no margin for error.

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  1. Sean

    One lucky pilot

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  2. Shaun Evertson

    You’ll like this if you haven’t seen it. 23MAY79, cdp parted as 888 came aboard. Pilot LCDR Finan was a USN exchange pilot.

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  3. Tarl

    When I was a kid, I visited the HMAS Melbourne when she was in Sydney. Seemed like a real big ship to me at the time. =)

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  4. Esli

    If you remember Mr Ralston, from OHHS, he told us a story where he launched with an overloaded F4u Corsair in Korea and, with no lift, just dropped into the water. This guy in the video has an incredible story, though.

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  5. NaCly Dog

    HMAS Melbourne rammed his aircraft, ran over it, and the pilot got out when the plane was 70 feet deep. He surfaced hundred of yards astern of the carrier, and was rescued.

    That is a lot of skill/luck to use up in one launch cycle.

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  6. xbradtc

    Yeah. He better not bother with Vegas.

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  7. Quartermaster

    Truly fortunate. Most plane drivers in that situation were killed. Yeah, like Brad says, forget Vegas. His luck is all used up.

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