Can Aircraft Fall Off Aircraft Carriers During Rough Seas?

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[@fougee1]

My Dad was a WW-2 veteran.He told me a story about Typhoon Cobra also known as Halsey's Typhoon in 1944.Three U.S. Destroyers were sunk 790 sailors lost their lives.Nine other ships took heavy damage dozens of planes were swept overboard. He said waves were over 50 foot.and wind gust over 150 MPH.After living through combat at Tarawa,Okinawa and the Philippines.My Father told me he was never so frighten as he was in that typhoon. RIP Dad I Love You Your Son.

[@sebfettel]

God bless you and your Dad. Take care

[@JesrielTorreon-ei3ri]

God bless from Philippines ❤

[@alexanderhorvat4836]

I was on an older carrier between 1972-74, the USS Oriskany. Very few aircraft (perhaps none-don't remember) were left on deck when we skirted the edge of a typhon during one of my cruises. If done properly you can put a lot of aircraft below deck. Generally, we were off the coast of Vietnam but for shore leave we would pull into Subic Bay in the PI. As I was on the bridge for awhile during this, the water was actually breaking over the flight deck, which is normally around 90 feet above the ocean. We were definitely getting hit hard, but both us and our destroyer escort survived. We were just on the edge of the typhon too! I would think most carrier crews would try to put all aircraft, especially helicopters below decks in a big storm.

[@2bullcrap]

USS HANCOCK CVA-19. We shared the line with the "O" boat on Yankee Station.

[@joemoore4027]

I was on the USS Constellation in the 1970's as a plane captain and engine mechanic on the flight deck with VA-146. As far as aircraft falling off the deck it can and it has happened before. I was riding brakes in an A7E that was going to the #1 spot on the bow when the ship was trying to outrun a typhoon. In pouring rain, gale force winds and the ship heaving 60+ feet . Myself, The A7 and the tug slid across the deck only a couple yards from the round down at the bow's edge. I dropped the tail hook which lodged into the safety net with one main wheel hanging in the air before finally stopping. Two more tugs chained together linked up to my tug and pulled me back onto the deck. The whole time I had my hand on the ejection seat handle ready to go for a "rocket ride" ( beats drowning or being run over by the ship ). Yes, a plane can fall off the flight deck. Take my word. It still brings back nightmares. JM, USN ,ret.

[@sebfettel]

Wow that sounds terrifying, glad it wasn't worse. Take care.

[@usereqnd9280]

;check

[@TAllyn-qr3io]

I was a sonartech aboard a destroyer, home ported out of Mayport, FL. We did a cruise in 1985 (Ocean Safari) in the fall. With many different ships of NATO. at one point we were doing between 48 and 52 foot swells. I looked out the porthole on the mess deck and saw the USS AMERICA getting pounded by the swells. I could not imagine waves going over the deck of a carrier. Our ship had everything that was attached outside the skin of the ship ripped off. All the ladders, fire hoses, damage control lumber and even the safety chains. Ripped a one foot wide crack in our hull and needed repairs in Bremerhaven. Craziest experience of my 21 year career in both the Navy and Army.

[@BlitzenSpeaks]

I was aboard America during that storm! It was NUTS!!! We had damage too.

[@LoFiMofo]

I worked on the flight deck aboard the USS John F. Kennedy during the 92-93 Med/Adriatic Sea cruise. I can attest that the deck gets quite slippery between scrub-x’s (when we soak down and clean the deck). I would ride brakes as a plane captain in S3B Vikings while moving the planes around the deck between ops and it was quite unnerving when the ship would tilt to one side or the other and we’d slide a bit. Between ops the aircraft are at 6, 12 or more point tie down with chains. The chains are only removed when the aircraft is taxiing and are put back on as soon as they park. We had rough seas off Morocco and the planes that were on deck were at 36 point tie down to the pad eyes. Those were long 12 hour days but i loved every minute of it launching 70 planes myself during that cruise.

[@bobbyalexander1758]

My dad was also on the jfk but it was in the 70s

[@monadking2761]

I gave a lot of respect to the plane captains I had to deal with as an AT. I remember seeing the plans slid in bad seas on the deck. Seeing the PC with those chains on their shoulders running all over the decks whenever I was working the deck.or the hanger and elevators. BZ to you all who serve.

[@Somethingwrongwiththepeople]

Cv-67 95-98 *the party boat lol

[@alexandralewis4287]

😮 my dad was working on that exact same Aircraft carrier to!!

[@LoFiMofo]

@@Somethingwrongwiththepeople We didn’t get much partying in. We were supposed to hit every port in the Med but between doing U-turns in the Adriatic Sea fort sorties over Bosnia and Saddam Hussain screwing with the UN weapons inspectors we were always at sea ready to launch.

[@Lowlight23]

I worked at an airport in Oklahoma and we had a tornado spin a B-727 in the gate. The aircraft was not tied down. The A-310 we had was tied down and was only nudged over a little. Those tie downs do their job great! 👍

[@kevindunlap5525]

Yeah! It's almost as if something's tied down!

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[@qunticoqamiroquai1620]

I was on the USS JFK when we went into a hurricane to save fishermen in 2000, whom boat capsized. Even doing the rough seas the carrier didn't list that much because it's a really a heavy ship. If the ship did go into rough seas, those planes would be in the hanger bay.

[@clarasmom9440]

I went on a Tiger Cruise on the JFK as my brother's guest from Norfolk to Jacksonville. And I'll say no storm can challenge the force of a Chief Petty Officer's little sister. We're a force to be reckoned with 😂

[@michaeljohnson4258]

😊not all of the planes can fit in the hangar bay. During rough seas extra chains are added to each plane to help secure it to the deck. On my ship we had a plane knocked off the ship when a wave broke the chains while it was on the elevator. Sad thing was the PC was inside and went down with the plane never to be seen again.

[@Paysoncougarfan.7885]

The Navy uses a 16-18 point chain down on each aircraft. They won’t be going anywhere.

[@hint0122]

Not all can fit

[@stevecooper6473]

"Whose" not "whom. English is a dying language.

[@ernestimken6969]

When in the Navy in 1962 I witnessed 2 bombers, A4D unsecured, roll over the side and splash in the sea. I was a signalman on an escort destroyer, USS Conway DD507. About an hour later, a helicopter landed on the carrier to take the flight officer to the Admiral's HQ.

[@robertboyes2505]

I served aboard the USS Ranger CV-61, and the USS Kitty Hawk CV-63, and I was on 3 WesPac's/Indian Ocean cruises. When the sea got rough with 25 ft to 30 ft, waves. All 9 squadrons had to put 12 to 25 tie down chains on all their aircraft. The USS Ranger CV-61, came with-in 3 degrees of capsizing a 1,000 miles East of Guam, in 1982, for 2 full days, in a Typhoon. 18 hours on the 3rd day, the typhoon swung North towards Japan, and the Ranger was far enough East from the typhoon. I was told by my Senior Chief, to take squadron's men from the line shack up on the flight deck, and check all 6 helicopters of HS-2. While, I was up on the flight deck, I got to talk to the Captain of the Ranger, and he was the one who told me what almost happen to the Ranger. One of the 6 Chaplin's, aboard the Ranger, was on the 1MC, request that 5,400 men to be praying for 2 days during the typhoon.

[@rossmansell5877]

Aircraft are usually lashed down with quickrelease cables to the deck. If the roll and pitch of the carrier is bad enough the cables may snap and hell breaks loose. These modern carriers usually batter their way through large waves and it has to be a pretty rough storm to move them around ....I worked in a carrier hangar deck when a storm blew up and a helicopter broke loose...carved up three aircraft as it moved around with a stack of us trying to nail it down!!

[@monadking2761]

I was on the IKE in 78-79 and we had 32 chains on every aircraft in one big storm, we could not avoid. The water was breaking the bow where I just secured the bird. As I was running back to the midship area, I heard the water breaking behind me. All I keep on thinking was I hope my feet don't fail me now. We had over 100 birds on board.

[@kevinballenger1211]

I Was On IKE-69 In Air Dept/V-1 Div From 80 - 84. We Encountered Heavy Seas In The North Atlantic. Normally, We'd Use 2 Chains Per Wheel. But During Heavy Seas, We'd Use Up To 6 Chains Per Wheel, And Sometimes Double Chocks. Also His Info About The Amount Of Aircraft On A Nimitz Class Is Incorrect. We Carried 6000 Crewmen (ship's company + squadron detail), And 100 Aircraft (planes + helos). ⚓

[@monadking2761]

Thank you for your service. I worked night ops and had liquid scrambled eggs in the mornings and nights for months. If iremember right, when I got up around 5 pm, only the front cafe (chow hall) was serving eggs, and then in the morning,when I got off at 7am, the main chow hall was servings eggs. The good old days, maybe that's why I love eggs, still hold my plate when i eat.

[@kevinballenger1211]

@@monadking2761 Old Habits Are Hard To Break! Believe It Or Not, I Still Put 45s In My Sheets! 👍

[@maundamartin59]

"ANYTHING" CAN FALL OFF THE DECK OF ANY SHIP IN VERY ROUGH SEAS. It's about how you SECURE shit. PERIOD!!!!!

[@maundamartin59]

CAN YOU IMAGINE A 🪨 ❄️ WAR JUMPING-OFF. AND THESE PLANES are taking off and landing in rapid succession, being hit by enemy fire right before a landing or perhaps even taking off only to get shot down right when the CATS SHOOT the planes to LIFT SPEED ONLY TO GET HIT by enemy fire RIGHT WHEN the jet leaves the flight deck on top of A "REAL" SHIPWIDE GENERAL QUATERS SITUATION on top of the FACT for some VERY ODD REASON the CARRIER IS ACTUALLY BEING bombarded WITH ORDINANCE from it's OPPS along with its FLEET. In VERY ROUGH SEAS? CLUSTERF*CK is only putting that type of situation VERY MILDLY.

[@Stetsonhatman]

We lost an F14 on the elevator. It was chained and a young airman was inside the cockpit. I don't know the height of the elevator at the time (min 50' above the water) but a wave came up and ripped the plane right off and the airman went down with the plane. The Capt. explained what happened over 1MC and ascribed it as a freak accident. Aboard ship, I worked in Engineering down below but I rarely felt any wave action. It was usually side to side roll which was annoying because the water sloshing in our steam generators would ring up false low level alarms.

[@raymondmiller7659]

I was on board the Enterprise off North Korea in hurricane winds in the 70s. Some catwalk was destroyed but the carrier only listed 6 deg. It did very well in this storm.

[@danielbritton8588]

We had war games with the Enterprise in 78' around the Indian Ocean. We visited Mombasa, Kenya together. Some places did not want nuclear vessels in their ports. We were anchored off shore & took small boats to landfall. I was off the Tautog. A fast attack sub out of Pearl. It was just us & the Enterprise also. I am not sure where the other ships went. What a memory that was.

[@toddolsen4604]

Might have to update this soon. As the F-35 becomes the main fighter. As a stealth plane and thus more costly to maintain, it will need to be parked in lower hangars away from the elements which compromise the stealth coating. Only the F-18 can be parked on the flight deck.

[@benbautista3625]

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[@williammoore5277]

Oh, heck yeah! Hard to fathom the power of the sea til you experience it. On the 1977 deployment of the USS Constellation we were doing our best to outrun a typhoon in the Sea of Japan. Off our starboard just a few thousand yards was the carrier USS FDR which was smaller and had a flight deck lower, was getting the worst of it. I watched her take waves over the flight deck which washed away more than one aircraft.

[@gar9429]

Aboard U.S.S. Kitty Hawk I seen 2 aircraft roll off the side of the ship at night in rough seas when the plane captains were not getting their planes tied down by blue shirts so they got out to tie them down and the planes rolled off the deck which of course called for a immediate muster to see if anyone was in the planes. Than God no lives were lost but a lot of money!

[@MurkyDregs]

Was in fairly massive seas on the USS Carl Vinson during PACEX around 1989; we tied down all the birds with a lot of chains. All tucked in as close as we could get them around the island.

[@leestamm3187]

Rode out a typhoon on the Enterprise in 1974. Most of the aircraft were crowded onto the hangar deck, but a few were tied down on the flight deck with extra chains aft of the island. We dipped into a few waves that came just over the bow and some hit the hangar deck elevator doors amidships, shooting big gushes of spray out of the gaps at either end. The ship rolled and pitched a bit energetically for six or seven hours, but no damage was done to anything. If properly secured on the flight deck, it's highly unlikely an aircraft will come loose in even very heavy weather.

[@leestamm3187]

@@HannahRoot55 Kind of you to suggest, but I would prefer that you didn't.

[@dalejr183]

Lol I was on CVN-72 VF-31 in 2000 I’ve been thru the roughest seas in the Indian Ocean. The water plane will play tricks on your eyes in the flight deck. I always liked it rocked me to sleep off shift

[@adegboyegaayojukan2718]

U.S.S Nimitz CVN-68. I was her Helmsman 1981-1984. God Bless Her.

[@andyleotell]

94-99, meatball technician, v2, cvn68, “on and on, 3/4 of a mile, call the ball”. “Roger ball, Tomcat”

[@richardbohall6877]

Was a Plane Captain with VF- 142 on the Enterprise heading for WEST - PAC Cruise . we had to avoid a Typhoon just pass Hawaii . we went around it rough seas looked out at our escort going up a swell then disappearing going down the swell. Felt sorry for those guys on that Destroyer

[@carmelasposito4150]

Thank you to all that serve and have served in the military.

[@csjrogerson2377]

An 8 minute video just to say Yes!

[@chulee846]

Yes it has happened on my watch. There were a couple of planes that had to be repositioned. while during one move the ship heaved and the plane slid off the flight deck pulling the tow tractor with it. We lost three people in the line of duty that day.......

[@papasmurf5925]

I was on the USS Theodore Roosevelt and went through the same hurricane twice. I worked on the cats and was berthed in bow right below the flight deck. It was CRAZY. At the top of the swing, on my tiptoes, at the bottom it felt like I weighed a ton. The Only good thing, chow lines were Empty and I wasn't sea sick for even a second.

[@HannahRoot55]

Hi , I really like your profile and your posts, and if you let me, I would make such an amazing mural out of it!😊

[@janeblue3053]

Sometimes the crew is ordered to push aircraft off the ship.

[@hint0122]

Only in cases of extreme danger. The last time I can think was during the evacuation of Saigon

[@M_Ladd]

Not when they cost over a million dollars. They will push you off before the plane goes.

[@howardcroft3748]

​@@M_Laddtry more like $70 million each

[@natetill812]

@@howardcroft3748 probably even more

[@johndoejoeblowshmoe8676]

When on fire

[@BlitzenSpeaks]

I served aboard the USS America (CV-66) in the 80s. The aircraft are chained to the deck. In heavy seas, there can be 4-12 chains per wheel mount! They don't move! That said, I have seen some "crunches" of aircraft while taxiing in heavy swells; particularly in the North Atlantic! But it's rare. Usually when the seas are that rough, flight ops are suspended.

[@paranoidandroid6711]

No I don't wonder I worked on the flight deck for 5 years. Kitty Hawk and Saratoga. I absolutely loved rough seas.

[@dondonas5863]

Amazing end beautiful . Respect USA .❤❤❤

[@Edward-ci8yl]

Hey guys thx for all your service!!!!!!

[@Aeronaut1975]

During the Falklands war of 1982, A British Sea Harrier (ZA174) operating from HMS Invincible, that was preparing to take off rolled off the side of the deck and into the sea after the captain suddenly turned the ship without notifying the flight deck. The pilot ejected safely and was rescued, but left the service shortly after.

[@Usdefensetech93]

Good. Video👍

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[@amiejambu8493]

Nice BRO👍👍👍

[@ourvanlives4736]

I was aboard USS Dwight D Eisenhower CVN 69 during the early 90s. We went up to a fjord in Norway for an exercise in March and we lost a fa/18 overboard during a severe storm in the North Sea. During the same storm an officer on the Bainbridge had his legs taken off from a chair on the bridge that broke loose and slammed across the bridge cutting off his legs at the knees.

[@kirkmartin4005]

I was in VFP63 Det 2 and I was riding brake on a F-8 Crusader they were respotting me next to the round down, thats at the aft end of the ship when the ship started a turn to port my plane started sliding and pulling the tow tractor with me, I was literally standing on the brakes, my butt was not even on the seat, and I was still sliding. The plane stopped just at the edge of the round down. All I could see was white water from the ships propellers. Two weeks prior to this in a marine in VMFA 531 or it was 323 not sure which, he went over with a F4 phantom that he was riding brakes on, and it broke his back.

[@kevinballenger1211]

I Was On IKE-69 In Air Dept/V-1 Div From 80 - 84. We Encountered Heavy Seas In The North Atlantic. Normally, We'd Use 2 Chains Per Wheel. But During Heavy Seas, We'd Use Up To 6 Chains Per Wheel, And Sometimes Double Chocks. Also His Info About The Amount Of Aircraft On A Nimitz Class Is Incorrect. We Carried 6000 Crewmen (ship's company + squadron detail), And 100 Aircraft (planes + helos). ⚓

[@karenjarrett8904]

Very interesting, happy to know where a bit of my taxes go! Thank you all and keep safe. 🇺🇸

[@Godwinpounds4333]

Hello how're you doing?

[@triz7766]

We used to keep the planes in the hanger deck during rough seas. Only aircraft on the flight deck was a Helo.

[@amitparneriawildlifephotog9469]

Amazing video 📹 👏 ❤️ 👌 🙌 😍

[@peterfoster9456]

Plant carrier decks like oil platforms use rugs to build islands of carrier decks and support ships rounding the world. One world in one galaxy in one universe. Love.

[@peterfoster9456]

Tugboats like McAllister with 6-7 k horsepower.

[@ruel1072]

Yes, they can fall off. It's something the Navy never ever ever considered when the idea of putting aircraft on a ship, that goes through rough oceans, came up.

[@alexanderhorvat4836]

To all you carrier sailors, you had some great tales of skirting disastrous typhoons and other storms. One thing we all learned is that no matter how big we thought our ships were, you don't F--k with Mother nature, she can always be bigger and more powerful than your ship and its crew. Run Forest run!

[@davenorman6717]

"We need a bigger boat" 😅

[@austinsoleyn1709]

Yes my there friend thanks you'll for sharing keep .I have learned a great lot keep up the great work And be safe all the time GOOD BLESS US ALL

[@uchungnguyen7686]

Tuyệt Vòi lắm 🎉❤

[@gar9429]

Going around Cape Horn South America we spent four hours straight on flight deck watch securing tie downs on all the planes on deck the sea was so rough. I'm sure we woiud have lost a couple in that situation if not for double checking tie downs.

[@nathanwright2672]

Went through a typhoon in the sea of Japan in 92 on the USS Ranger. We lost an A6 and had a damaged missile launcher.

[@HannahRoot55]

Wright

[@allgood6760]

Thanks for this 👍✈️

[@seangelarden9543]

I've been in the north sea on a carrier with waves over the bow and never lost a plane, check your chains!

[@paulr4811]

HMAS Melbourne CVS 21, had an A4 Skyhawk snap its tie downs, roll onto a gun sponson then fell into the Tadman sea, also the LWO2 radar also fell into the ocean, on the same trip

[@raywhitehead730]

Yes airplanes can fall off an aircraft carrier. It already has been done, many times. I was was witness to one. In about 1988 off of Hawaii, A 6 fell into the ocean from the elevator. The brake rider was never found.

[@pandipandi751]

Wow very very super

[@rickconner2366]

I was a plane captain ( my responsibilitie to make sure my plane was ready to fly) on the indy and the Sara. When weather is bad and the seas were rough we used a 16 point tie down. I have never seen a plane move after we chained them down.

[@carlosalonso3978]

Just for some critical information each individual chain has a rating of around 10,000 Lbs so an aircraft weighing around 60,000 Lbs would need at least Six chains but during roughs seas You would see Jets Tie down with up to 24 tie downs which is double the weight of these jets and helicopters.

[@davenorman6717]

Thank you for that information ! How are the chains adjusted to take up the slack...like a come-a-long maybe ?

[@spannerturnerMWO]

They have a turnbuckle and quick release mechanism. The turnbuckle collar nut can be tightened once the chain is in place. Similar concept to a ratchet strap.

[@alpgurpinar7285]

Impressive, good job.

[@roberthudson1959]

USS Harry S Truman had one go overboard last summer. It was retrieved at a depth of about 9,500 feet roughly a month later.

[@natetill812]

Was it a raptor?

[@maundamartin59]

How. That's almost 2 miles down. The crush depth should have obliterated it?

[@niweshlekhak9646]

@@natetill812 Raptor has never operated from an aircraft carrier.

[@spannerturnerMWO]

@maundamartin59 Crush depth would only affect the tires and LOX bottles. Nothing else on the aircraft is "air tight". Metal, as long as it has no air pockets in it, will survive just fine. Case in point, the Titannic sits 12K+ feet down and the metal survived the sinking just fine. 110 years of saltwater and organisms have done more damage than the water pressure.

[@willlord7220]

I always thought the procedure was just “bring them into the hanger”

[@hint0122]

There's not enough room for all of them

[@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568]

hangar*

[@touco9077]

I was stationed on board the USS GUADALCANAL LPH7 for almost four years 79-83 and although it was a helicopter carrier they packed all the helicopters in the hangar bay when we were in really rough seas, hueys, Chinook 46s and 53s ( jolly green giants) but I realize that aircraft carriers carry many more aircraft then the old LPHs which are no more.

[@Slonge92]

No they don’t because the laws of physics don’t apply to aircraft carriers.

[@victorglaviano]

If the clover leafs get pulled out of the deck, in that case the ship is coming apart. I've never seen it happen, but it does. The aircraft are chained down at several points.

[@janiceberger4851]

Great video.

[@maxwellmauro1]

How are you doing beautiful lady ❤️🌹

[@19brittani]

They also park the aircraft in the hanger bay.

[@CollinBehm-mp4ef]

Big Beautiful Target 🎯

[@melwig2813]

Sometimes the flight deck can get slippery from spilled fuels and lubricants. On the Eisenhower, we had an F14 rolling into launch position when the ship took a roll. The F14 slid sideways, and the crew ejected. We immediately launched a helicopter for recovery. They picked up the pilot but never found the radar intercept officer. By far, the majority of onboard fatalities that occurred where related to flight deck operations.

[@troymaynor8690]

Why no mention of the usual number of tie-downs in smooth seas versus high or rough seas on the average aircraft?

[@victorglaviano]

You haven't seen rough seas until you've crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Ingleside, TX to Arhus, Denmark on an MCM! Trust me, you will believe at some point your life is over! But remember... Don't give up the ship!

[@alexkupkovic7695]

Interesting

[@shreeveda]

With Drone technology increasing exponentially, would there be a need for such colossal, mammoth aircraft carriers and manned-fleet in the future? Drones & Satellites tech together can change the war games. Ground-based ICBMs and laser-guided weapons supplement.

[@hint0122]

There would have to be some kind of forward deployed fleet.

[@stevenhealy4221]

When they're tied down on the deck properly they will never come off the deck there are so many chains bonding them to the deck I think it's like 16 per plane to hold them on the deck if done properly they will never come loose

[@bobsokoloski9559]

I was on John McCain boat the Forrestal when we went through a hurricane in 82'. I have never had sea sickness so long. 3 days of hell but we lost no AC or people. We got tied 4 ppl together to check the chains every hour.

[@HannahRoot55]

Hi Bob

[@HannahRoot55]

Hi 👋

[@paulannebranson8230]

Love the military

[@Turner.1]

Heck we always moved them into the hangar decks during really bad seas

[@HannahRoot55]

Hi Jeff, I really like your profile and your posts, and if you let me, I would make such an amazing mural out of it!😊

[@adampatterson5475]

Stupid question but what is the deck made out of?

[@foreman3737]

Yes, they can fall off , that is why they chain them to the deck .

[@channel.youtube8715]

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[@bobsokoloski9559]

More planes are lost to pilot error than foul weather!

[@thomasp12384]

I have to admit, at 1:35 is looks like the carrier is about to sink lol

[@TimothyWiley-r2b]

...it happens only when the air wing can't off to a nearby landing place, but if they are on the ship they are tied down and hope for the best, but it does happen....

[@marianosantopinto]

love to go in one of those

[@Paysoncougarfan.7885]

The picture on this vid is totally messed up. The tower is on the wrong side, maybe you have a flipped negative?

[@hawkeyeted]

Thank King Neptune for the TD-1 Tiedown Chain.

[@ladtacarmsllc3276]

Saw a forklift go right through the side of a ship once. Big waves, big hole.

[@buck9739]

That boat has got to be Rockin

[@buck9739]

@@HannahRoot55 thanks go for it

[@buck9739]

@@HannahRoot55 Vermont where are you from

[@buck9739]

@@HannahRoot55 I’m afraid I don’t email sorry. It may be weird but I don’t need to ever email. I have employees do that stuff. I just don’t bother with computer or paperwork no interest in it. I have a email just rarely use it.

[@buck9739]

@@HannahRoot55 oh I didn’t draw the aircraft Carrier I can’t take credit for that. I just commented on it because it’s cool.

[@buck9739]

@@HannahRoot55 sorry

[@freeagent8225]

I used to work in the Navy out of habit i tie down my car in the garage.

[@johncarlisle2755]

So... They got stabilisers and use chains. Right?

[@Sublette217]

Short answer: yes.

[@Utahhorse117]

Cool I don’t know that.

[@hsserry5289]

Very seldom, if any. Unless the whole carrier turns over and start sinking, naturally! 😮

[@yakarimehamadou411]

La nature sera toujours plus forte que n'importe quelle embarquation. Civile ou militaire.....

[@simeongutierrez2497]

no..they have a tie down...I been on-board one...and rough seas between California and hawaii

[@Somethingwrongwiththepeople]

Of course they can if not tied down correctly

[@dougstitt1652]

what is the insane Eng. that holds planes to the deck O wait it is chains !

[@davenorman6717]

Exactly 🙄

[@davenorman6717]

Best part is hearing all of the stories in the comments

[@TimDavidson-t4q]

I've seen waves over front, planes sliding off deck, ice storm's.North Atlantic, early 80s

[@TimDavidson-t4q]

Wouldn't trade it , for below decks!!

[@andy99ish]

I have never lost an aircraft due to rough sea from an carrier under my command.

[@murphylee8998]

Hello how are you doing hope you're fine and staying safe 🥰🥰🥰

[@larrywiggin3489]

All aircraft on the flight deck are tied down with chains, they work very well and keep the aircraft safe in heavy water!

[@HannahRoot55]

Wiggin😂

[@TherdsakKongphetdid-v1e]

สบายเห็นเนอะ

[@maklorm5381]

Very big

[@4406bbldb]

I wonder if any of my ship mates are here from the USS ranger from the typhoon in Japan about 1966? We got out of port and and actually stuffed the bow, and when the wave came running down the deck and wave took the last three planes off the flight deck that we had really seriously tied down and just took them away. we couldn’t fit them all in the hanger bay me all the destroyers around us we’re submarine you can see their smoke stacks Poppin smoke out of a wave big big fine. We all survived well a couple sailors passed. They weren’t supposed to go out on the weather deck and I thought come on aircraft carrier we can go out here and watch the water

[@HannahRoot55]

Hi Don, I really like your profile and your posts, and if you let me, I would make such an amazing mural out of it!😊