Carrier Landing Practice Runway
This is pretty cool. It’s a Marine Air Corps runway but they have the outline of an aircraft carrier painted on the runway with little planes and everything. This is obviously for carrier landing training, a wee bit safer than attempting it on the real thing. I’ve heard that landing on an aircraft carrier can be one of the most diffcult things a navy pilot can do. Chris Dawson tell us:
They even have the cable mechanism there to slow the planes on landing (1/2 mile from my parents’ house). We usually see Harriers practicing from here.
Thanks Chris!
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This is Bogue Field. The runway is made of aluminum panels which can be moved to other sites.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/bogue-field.htm
If you look closely at maximum zoom, you can see President Bush in his flight suit.
There’s another one of these here:
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It’s low-res in Maps, but in his-res glory in Earth.
This is a similated LHA located on Red Beach at Camp Pendleton California. An LHA is a small aircraft carrier designed to carry helicopters and many, many, U.S. Marines. OOHRAH!
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Yeah, those aren’t aircraft carrier outlines, they’re LHA outlines…sorry guys. And there are no arresting cables on these ships, so I don’t know what you’re seeing. Those aren’t airplanes on them either, those are landing marks for the AV-8B Harrier and various helicopters carried aboard. Check out the real thing: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Just wanted to say thanks for the marker - I was just in Emerald Isle on vacation. I saw the AV-8 practicing and watched a C-130 fly over during what seemed like touch-n-go’s for two days in a row. Also watched a fleet form up just off the coast including an aircraft carrier, an AEGIS cruiser, a couple of other escorts and what looked like the bridge of a sub. It was a good vacation
It’s the deck of an LHA/Tarawa-Class Ship. West Coast: USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3,) USS Tarawa (LHA-1,) USS Peleliu (LHA-5.) East Coast: Saipan (LHA-2,) and Nassau (LHA-5.)
Remarkable ships that have a stern gate which opens-up to de-ballast the ship and submerge the ‘wet’ well deck to launch/recover Marine Corps landing craft (and pique the curiosity of a California Sea Lion or two.)