Senator Mark Kelly

It's hard to do well.

Yeah.

Yeah, I would have thought so myself until I had to do it.

Eventually it gets to the point where in the daytime you get comfortable doing it and you can, you know, you feel like, hey, I can be successful at this.

At night, it's a controlled crash and you're just like, you're just holding on.

I don't know what frequency our brains are operating on in that moment, but the stick movement and the throttle movement can be just kind of nuts.

Yeah.

And if you land short, the ramp strike is a high probability.

Yeah.

And then you're dead.

Yeah.

It's the recovery, the launch, the recovery.

Yeah.

And you got to get all these airplanes aboard in a short period of time.

You just, you know, then you got to move them, you know, you're moving them around on the deck.

And what we call it physically, the event is we call it a trap.

Yeah.

Which is, now that I think about it, is a weird way to say it because a trap is usually like you're going to, you know, capture an animal.

Yeah.

But the event of landing on the aircraft carrier, that's a trap.