Got to see our tax dollars at work

[shortleg]

  I have spent the last few days at a Naval air station called
Pax river here in Maryland. It is also a test station for Navy Air.
  Have gotten to watch a new F35[The one for the Navy] do touch and goes
and watch it use it,s tail hook.
   They have a section of the field setup with the arresting wires
just like a Carrier.
    Now the next cool thing I watched was a drone from what I was told was made for the
Navy do a few touch and goes . Then watched as it landed using the wires.
   As you can expect I was not allowed to use a camera.
  But it was way cool.
              Shortleg[Dave]

 
   

[Reb]

The Navy was in the process of setting up a UAV program when I departed in 2009, I worked with the Predator and Reaper while in Afghanistan. They both are amazing aircraft. If a carrier based UAV would have went into production for the Navy earlier I would have re-enlisted and switched rates.

[old2soon]

Dating myself. Airantisubron-23 Grumman S2 Ds and Es. Recips and props. But i'll never forget my time on the flight deck. My hats off to the new generation warriors-doing lots more with way less. RIDE SAFE.