Magic Carpet Ride Aircraft Carrier

Magic carpet is a software modification to the airplane s digital flight control system that allows naval aviators to make fewer corrections in an effort to land on the carrier.

Magic carpet ride aircraft carrier.

F18 aircraft carrier take off landing music by steppenwolf daily popular. F a 18 e f super hornet performs trap during magic carpet sea trials on the the uss george h w. In the case of magic carpet the pilot turns in behind the carrier and sets up for landing by engaging magic carpets delta flight path mode. F 18 flight take off and landing from the deck of an aircraft carrier to the music of magic carpet ride by steppenwolf.

Mike shoemaker commander naval air forces. With magic carpet the computer is doing that paddling constantly making tiny adjustments faster and more precisely than any human could manage to keep the aircraft on the pilot s. Watch the video to experience the magic carpet assisted aircraft carrier landing through the eyes of a pilot and learn more about boeing s rich history of performing the trap or arrested landing. The computer understands that this means maintaining a specific speed auto throttles and a glideslope of 3 degrees.

Hundreds of liberty ships victory ships and troop transports began repatriating soldiers from europe in june 1945 beginning in october 1945 over 370 navy ships were used for repatriation. Operation magic carpet was the post world war ii operation by the war shipping administration to repatriate over eight million american military personnel from the european pacific and asian theaters.