A-6 crash after launch?

I was watching a documentary called "Top Gun" on the Military Channel.

They had some footage of some cat launches gone wrong. In one an A-6 took
off the waist catapult of a carrier and started losing altitude almost
immediately. Then something really big fell off the plane, it started to
roll, and the pilots ejected at very low altitude.

Any idea what happened there? I remember hearing about some aircraft launch
where the fuel in an external tank acted like a ram and caused some heavy
damage, but I'm not sure if these are the same events.

In another shot, a large prop plane, possibly an S-2F, took off the waist
catapult of a smaller Essex class carrier and immediately slammed into a
wave. Again, does anybody have any details?





D

I saw the video of the plane punching through the wave while I was in
API. I got the impression that the video made the wave look more
catastrophic than in actually was. Don't think it caused any damage to
the aircraft just some super stunned pilots.

In article .com,
wrote:

I saw the video of the plane punching through the wave while I was in
API. I got the impression that the video made the wave look more
catastrophic than in actually was. Don't think it caused any damage to
the aircraft just some super stunned pilots.

This the S-1 video through the wave you were looking at?

http://tinyurl.com/jjjo5

Pugs

"Allen Epps" wrote in message
...

This the S-1 video through the wave you were looking at?

http://tinyurl.com/jjjo5

Pugs

I assume that the S-1 did not have ejection seats?

JD

"Allen Epps" wrote...

This the S-1 video through the wave you were looking at?

I've seen an A-7 launch through a similar wave off Midway in the northern
Pacific. I think we were all surprised when he flew out the other side!

"John Weiss" jrweiss98155nospamatnospamcomcastdotnospamnet wrote in
message ...
"Allen Epps" wrote...

This the S-1 video through the wave you were looking at?

I've seen an A-7 launch through a similar wave off Midway in the northern
Pacific. I think we were all surprised when he flew out the other side!

I was just thinking the S-1 was lucky they had recips. I thought for sure a
jet would flame out!

Did anyone receive dolphins for this? g

--
Mike Kanze

"It's scary when you start making the same noises as your coffeemaker."

- Anonymous


"John Weiss" jrweiss98155nospamatnospamcomcastdotnospamnet wrote in message ...
"Allen Epps" wrote...

This the S-1 video through the wave you were looking at?

I've seen an A-7 launch through a similar wave off Midway in the northern
Pacific. I think we were all surprised when he flew out the other side!

Allen Epps wrote
This the S-1 video through the wave you were looking at?

http://tinyurl.com/jjjo5

What is (was) an S-1?

From the web:

The skipping of the P-1 designation in the 1962 Joint designation scheme
was most likely due to the fact that it was convenient to redesignate the
P2V, P3V, P4Y, and P5M to P-2, P-3, P-4, and P-5, respectively. 28. Similar
to note 27, the S-1 designation was most likely skipped out of the
convenience of renaming the S2F to S-2 and continuing from there.

Bob Moore
S-2F NAS Kingsville 1959

In article ,
Bob Moore wrote:

Allen Epps wrote
This the S-1 video through the wave you were looking at?

http://tinyurl.com/jjjo5

What is (was) an S-1?

From the web:

The skipping of the P-1 designation in the 1962 Joint designation scheme
was most likely due to the fact that it was convenient to redesignate the
P2V, P3V, P4Y, and P5M to P-2, P-3, P-4, and P-5, respectively. 28. Similar
to note 27, the S-1 designation was most likely skipped out of the
convenience of renaming the S2F to S-2 and continuing from there.

Bob Moore
S-2F NAS Kingsville 1959

Accck of course I meant C-1

Pugs

Allen wrote:
In article ,
Bob Moore wrote:


Allen Epps wrote

This the S-1 video through the wave you were looking at?

http://tinyurl.com/jjjo5

What is (was) an S-1?

From the web:

The skipping of the P-1 designation in the 1962 Joint designation scheme
was most likely due to the fact that it was convenient to redesignate the
P2V, P3V, P4Y, and P5M to P-2, P-3, P-4, and P-5, respectively. 28. Similar
to note 27, the S-1 designation was most likely skipped out of the
convenience of renaming the S2F to S-2 and continuing from there.

Bob Moore
S-2F NAS Kingsville 1959


Accck of course I meant C-1

Pugs

The MAD boom in the tail makes that photo an S-2.

Rick

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