{"id":9075,"date":"2010-05-03T02:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/03\/carrier-landing-on-a-pitching-deck-one-of-the\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T01:41:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:41:43","slug":"carrier-landing-on-a-pitching-deck-one-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/03\/carrier-landing-on-a-pitching-deck-one-of-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carrier Landing on a Pitching Deck<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the most stressful things a naval aviator faces is a night carrier landing.  Add 30-foot seas to the mix, and you get a pitching deck that can be much more dangerous than most combat operations.  Check the above videos (parts 1 and 2) from the PBS special <em>Carrier<\/em> documenting a particularly rough night on the USS Nimitz. The videos are absolutely riveting; go full screen if you can&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>[thanks to Rolland C. for the links]<\/p>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrier Landing on a Pitching Deck One of the most stressful things a naval aviator faces is a night carrier landing. Add 30-foot seas to the mix, and you get a pitching deck that can be much more dangerous than most combat operations. Check the above videos (parts 1 and 2) from the PBS special &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/03\/carrier-landing-on-a-pitching-deck-one-of-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9076,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9075\/revisions\/9076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}