Saw this article last week in the San Diego Union-Tribune with the catchy title: "No More Tricky Landings" and had to laugh. Do the pointy-head engineers really think they can program carrier landings to a science? Hmm, seem to remember ACL and auto-throttle systems from the 70s and 80s. Sure, the technology is leaps and bounds better, but once the ship starts rocking and rolling, turbulence and lightening strike and a black box or two fails, dare to say it is more than "tricky" to land a 60,000-pound jet--even one with the most sophisticated computer system.
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