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Navy commander pilot passes 1,000th ‘trap’ aircraft carrier

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?...&article=23288

{EXCERPT}, by Jason Chudy, Stars and Stripes European edition,
Thursday, July 15, 2004

Carrier landings have been described as “controlled crashes.”

Cmdr. David Landess has done it more than 1,000 times.

Landess, who commands the USS John F. Kennedy-based Fighter Squadron
103, joins only about 300 other pilots in the Navy’s history to reach
this milestone. Another 100 or so naval flight officers, who operate
the aircraft’s electronics, have also reached this accomplishment.

“This achievement is certainly a source of pride for me,” Landess
wrote in an e-mail to Stars and Stripes. The Kennedy was recently in
the Mediterranean Sea on its way to the Persian Gulf.

According to retired Capt. Bob Rasmussen, director of the National
Museum of Naval Aviation, o...

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