After all these years (47) I'm still proud that I joined the Navy rather than the Army, Air Force or Marines. Even though I never seen a ship and still wound up in Vietnam. I must admit that the main reason I joined the Navy was to stay out of 'Nam but as fate would have it I wound up volunteering for the 'Nam duty.

...all military pilots are taught it...some execute it perfectly...Like this guy!!!!

I do have a question though. Why didn't the pilot know about this
kind of contingency?

The pilot said he was told the stool was made specifically for that purpose,
while he was in the air.

It's hard to believe that those pilots weren't told of the stool before, or
trained for it at least by simulation.

and everybody knows it except maybe the pilots, hence the kludge of a giant "stool" to let the nose down on.

You'd think they'd come up with a solution to fix the landing gear, instead.

I agree, the pilot is awesome.

K&R

It's not a stool, it's a tool designed for aircraft to land on.

Not a human sitting stool but a stool nevertheless

And it's a sturdy aircraft as he still hit
the deck pretty good.

We now have the F-35, a product of design-by-management, which can barely do anything right.

The Harrier and Warthog make me pine for the Cold War...

It's been years since I've read much or thought much about the aircraft... But I seem to remember that it was never rated that highly.

The super STOL ability always seemed like a solution without a problem. And the thing is difficult to handle.

A coll airplane nonetheless.

I think it's more a force projection aircraft than anything else. "Look at what WE can do!"