"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
09/13/2013 at 10:13 • Filed to: Planelopnik
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
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Stick around for the night vision shots of takeoff and landing.
HammerheadFistpunch
> ttyymmnn
09/13/2013 at 11:40 |
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That was awesome. Couple of things struck me:
1. no arrestor gear and no catapult is just to weird to see.
2. That must be one hell of a surface to be able to take a beating like that. you can really see in the night shots how much the exhaust gas just bakes the deck, even on takeoff.
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ttyymmnn
> HammerheadFistpunch
09/13/2013 at 11:45 |
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I read some months ago that they were having serious problems with both deck and asphalt melting underneath the F-35. I'm not sure what they've done about the asphalt, though DefenseTech has a short article about the treatment Wasp had to receive to protect her deck:
It turns out, this is indeed a new, heat-resistant deck coating called Thermion. It’s made of bonded ceramic and aluminum and was applied to landing spot nine on the Wasp’s flight deck — “a small area used for vertical landings,” according to the Navy.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> ttyymmnn
09/13/2013 at 11:46 |
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Thermion...the military gets all the cool names.