How clever were the Japanese?
That was clever: they used steam venting instead of a wind sock as a sight cue for their pilots, trapping onto their flight decks.
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The landing band at the round-down contained drift right — left sideslip stripe sight cues. The “wings” contained the glide-slope meatball lamps for vertical sight up-down cues. Those arrows wind direction indicators both at the head of the trap run and the head of the takeoff run, at the vertices, had a steam vent pipes that emitted a cloud of highly visible water vapor. This allowed a pilot to see wind shear over deck in action as he made takeoff or trapped aboard. This entire arrangement automated the LSO process to a degree that removed the landing signal officer human error element.
The pilot could still botch the trap approach or takeoff. The Japanese did everything they could imagine in a systems process to cue the pilot off or aboard a heaving pitching deck, without trying to distract him with some nimrod waving paddles at him
This system was decades ahead of anything the British or Americans had.
That was clever: they used steam venting instead of a wind sock as a sight cue for their pilots, trapping onto their flight decks.
The landing band at the round-down contained drift right — left sideslip stripe sight cues. The “wings” contained the glide-slope meatball lamps for vertical sight up-down cues. Those arrows wind direction indicators both at the head of the trap run and the head of the takeoff run, at the vertices, had a steam vent pipes that emitted a cloud of highly visible water vapor. This allowed a pilot to see wind shear over deck in action as he made takeoff or trapped aboard. This entire arrangement automated the LSO process to a degree that removed the landing signal officer human error element.
The pilot could still botch the trap approach or takeoff. The Japanese did everything they could imagine in a systems process to cue the pilot off or aboard a heaving pitching deck, without trying to distract him with some nimrod waving paddles at him
This system was decades ahead of anything the British or Americans had.
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