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Besides 'dampener' we (or I) have a new nomenclature to puzzle over (yes virginia I won't bang on about it but google it for gorsake!) SHIVES. You heard it here 'frist'.
But but but sir... Ward Carroll should know the correct term so I wonder if it was just a subedit error. Anyhoo...
JSF’s Trouble Stopping on the Boat by Ward Carroll on October 24, 2012
http://defensetech.org/2012/10/24/jsfs- ... -the-boat/
"...The first 10 times the F-35 tried to perform an arrested landing — with experienced test pilots at the controls – the airplane only caught a wire three times.
You don’t need to be a tailhooker to figure out that that percentage won’t work out in the fleet. Jets come back from missions usually with a handful of looks at the deck at most, and if a pilot puts his craft in the wires, he should have confidence he’s going to stop....
...Arresting wires don’t lay directly on the flight deck; they’re elevated by curved pieces of metal known as “shives.” So the engineers’ first thought was to raise the shives so that the hook might have a better chance of catching. But the Navy wasn’t keen on tackling a ship modification when the system worked fine for every other airplane, so the engineers looked at changing the JSF hook point instead.
The result is a tailhook with a sharper point that sources tell us appears to have solved the problem.
And so we have another data point around why we do flight testing and why it takes so long for airplanes to reach the fleet … besides the convoluted DoD procurement process...."
Ward Carroll is a jokester AND as always best to read entire post at URL (URLy boid catches de woim?). Whatever.
FROM:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ ... /14310.pdf

JSF’s Trouble Stopping on the Boat by Ward Carroll on October 24, 2012
http://defensetech.org/2012/10/24/jsfs- ... -the-boat/
"...The first 10 times the F-35 tried to perform an arrested landing — with experienced test pilots at the controls – the airplane only caught a wire three times.
You don’t need to be a tailhooker to figure out that that percentage won’t work out in the fleet. Jets come back from missions usually with a handful of looks at the deck at most, and if a pilot puts his craft in the wires, he should have confidence he’s going to stop....
...Arresting wires don’t lay directly on the flight deck; they’re elevated by curved pieces of metal known as “shives.” So the engineers’ first thought was to raise the shives so that the hook might have a better chance of catching. But the Navy wasn’t keen on tackling a ship modification when the system worked fine for every other airplane, so the engineers looked at changing the JSF hook point instead.
The result is a tailhook with a sharper point that sources tell us appears to have solved the problem.
And so we have another data point around why we do flight testing and why it takes so long for airplanes to reach the fleet … besides the convoluted DoD procurement process...."
Ward Carroll is a jokester AND as always best to read entire post at URL (URLy boid catches de woim?). Whatever.
FROM:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ ... /14310.pdf
A4G Skyhawk: www.faaaa.asn.au/spazsinbad-a4g/ & www.youtube.com/channel/UCwqC_s6gcCVvG7NOge3qfAQ/videos?view_as=subscriber