Greatest Number of Traps

Just curious....

Who in the Navy holds the record for greatest number of carrier trap
landings? And what's his total number of traps?

WDA
VF-24 & VA-192



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It was never a competition!!
We did it because it was our job and duty.

"W. D. Allen Sr." wrote in message
...
Just curious....

Who in the Navy holds the record for greatest number of carrier trap
landings? And what's his total number of traps?

WDA
VF-24 & VA-192



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On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:15:20 GMT, "Glenn Dowdy"
wrote:


"niceguy" wrote in message
hlink.net...
It was never a competition!!
We did it because it was our job and duty.

And probably because you had nowhere else to land. The man asked a simple
polite question: there exists/existed a naval aviator who had more carrier
traps than anyone else; who was he and how many? No one is claiming he's the
best/greatest/whatever; it's just a matter of stastitics, Mr. Anonymous.

Glenn D.


It is an interesting question and worthy of a better response than
that offered by "niceguy"--which seems to be rendered oxymoronic by
the offering.

Having seen more than a few (hundred) naval aviatiors wearing various
"Centurion" patches, this old AF driver knows that logging lots of
traps was something that most guys were very proud of.

I only managed to ride through 3---two Phantom and one COD during a
visit to Forrestal. And, those were clear weather, bright sunshine,
calm seas in the Med. Wouldn't have liked to do it on a regular basis.


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
www.thunderchief.org
www.thundertales.blogspot.com

The name of RADM James Flatley III has been mentioned in that regard. I
have no way of verifying it.

Here's the Tailhook Association's list of people with 1000 or more traps:
http://www.tailhook.org/GrandClub.html

--
John Miller
email domain: n4vu.com; username: jsm(@)

"niceguy" wrote in message
link.net...
It was never a competition!!
We did it because it was our job and duty.

And probably because you had nowhere else to land. The man asked a simple
polite question: there exists/existed a naval aviator who had more carrier
traps than anyone else; who was he and how many? No one is claiming he's the
best/greatest/whatever; it's just a matter of stastitics, Mr. Anonymous.

Glenn D.

"niceguy" wrote:

It was never a competition!!
We did it because it was our job and duty.


snort kinda full of yourself ain't you?...I'll bet your shorts
are covered with US flags, eh?...I'd be most surprised if you
ever got closer to an aircraft carrier than seeing one at anchor
in port.
--

-Gord.
(use gordon in email)

Gord Beaman wrote:

"niceguy" wrote:

It was never a competition!!
We did it because it was our job and duty.

snort kinda full of yourself ain't you?...I'll bet your shorts
are covered with US flags, eh?...I'd be most surprised if you
ever got closer to an aircraft carrier than seeing one at anchor
in port.

snort, aye. In 18 years spent on the care and feeding of Naval
Aviators [green variety] and their steeds, I learned one thing.
Every one of them would compete with every other one of them in
anything. The wise SNCO would stay out of the way as the free
eats were laid out at the SNCO club on Bosses Night Happy Hour -
to do otherwise was a guarantee of great bodily harm, if not
death during the mad dash of the pilots to be first at the
goodies. Of course bragging rights were attached to number of
traps, just like just about any other thing involved, either with
a given model of aircraft or aircraft in general, that a pilot
could brag about.

Whether it's Marion Carl and Joe Foss of the Cactus Air Force, or
those attending those Bosses Nights, Naval Aviators compete.
It's in their blood, or they never would have made it through
Pensacola.
--
OJ III
[Email to Yahoo address may be burned before reading.
Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast.]

Ed,

Wouldn't have liked to do it on a regular basis.

Especially over the Gulf of Tonkin, night, low state, dancing deck, no
tanker airborne, dodging tstms and misguided attempts by rookie controllers
to marshal you over Hainan Island. g

--
Mike Kanze

"When we talk to God we are praying; when God talks to us, we are
schizophrenic."

- Lily Tomlin


"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:15:20 GMT, "Glenn Dowdy"
wrote:


"niceguy" wrote in message
thlink.net...
It was never a competition!!
We did it because it was our job and duty.

And probably because you had nowhere else to land. The man asked a simple
polite question: there exists/existed a naval aviator who had more carrier
traps than anyone else; who was he and how many? No one is claiming he's
the
best/greatest/whatever; it's just a matter of stastitics, Mr. Anonymous.

Glenn D.


It is an interesting question and worthy of a better response than
that offered by "niceguy"--which seems to be rendered oxymoronic by
the offering.

Having seen more than a few (hundred) naval aviatiors wearing various
"Centurion" patches, this old AF driver knows that logging lots of
traps was something that most guys were very proud of.

I only managed to ride through 3---two Phantom and one COD during a
visit to Forrestal. And, those were clear weather, bright sunshine,
calm seas in the Med. Wouldn't have liked to do it on a regular basis.


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
www.thunderchief.org
www.thundertales.blogspot.com

Thanks, John.

WDA



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"John Miller" wrote in message
...
The name of RADM James Flatley III has been mentioned in that regard. I
have no way of verifying it.

Here's the Tailhook Association's list of people with 1000 or more traps:
http://www.tailhook.org/GrandClub.html

--
John Miller
email domain: n4vu.com; username: jsm(@)

snort, aye. In 18 years spent on the care and feeding of Naval
Aviators [green variety] and their steeds.....

Very insightful post, OJ, but waaaay back in the oooold days, both
Navy and Marine pilots wore green.

Although I wore the more attractive shade of green, I thought the Navy
greens were damn good-looking, too. I gather a lot of Navy guys were
unhappy when they were phased out.

vince norris