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A screenshot from Rob Roy's split screen video of a C-2A(R) launching on Christmas Day. Strap in the cockpit of a C-2 Greyhound as it launches from USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier on Christmas Day a few years back. Although Christmas Day is just an ordinary work day for pilots on duty all around the world, some of them like to celebrate the mission in a special way. For example, in the past we have reported about U.S. combat pilots wearing Santa Hat on their flight helmet while joining the tanker for AAR (Air-to-Air Refueling) during a combat mission on Christmas Day, and, you search on...

A screenshot from the split screen video embedded in the article showing the final approach to USS Truman from the cockpit of a C-2A(R). This video from a U.S. Navy pilot really gives an idea of the amount of mental focus required to perform a trap landing on an aircraft carrier. Rob Roy is an active duty U.S. Navy pilot. He’s logged 1,000 flight hours, 135 arrested landings, including 75 as the PIC (Pilot In Command), flying the C-2A(R) Greyhound with the Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 40 (VRC-40) “Rawhides”, one of only two active fleet logistics squadrons in the Navy (the other bei...

Span of an hour. never tell me the odds. and his friend and former flight instructor released a statement saying in part he takes every flight he makes seriously and i would trust him with my own family as his passengers today and in the future. back in 2000 he appeared on inside the actor's studio after he walked away from a helicopter crash but it's what he said about flying that caught our ear. >> i fell in love with the skills and with the responsibilities. ? that's the main thing. >> yeah. you, you know all this stuff we pretend to do in movies you really are out there responsible. pilot ...