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Anonymous ID: 3951a2 Feb. 15, 2025, 9:27 p.m. No.22592264   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2270 >>2303 >>2325 >>2330

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I took many hundreds of cat shots and I never ONCE saluted the catapult officer with my left hand because it’s potential suicide. You salute when you’re at full power, often in afterburner, and ready to go. You could be launched at any second and if that happens when your left hand is off the throttle, it will retard to idle and you will go in the drink just ahead of the ship; not a good thing.

 

It seems that some people post videos made by someone else and when they do so, they post a mirror image in the false belief that the can escape a copyright violation. That might explain why it appears the pilot is saluting with the wrong hand. Just a guess.

 

Remember, if you’re the pilot you are looking right at the catapult officer just before launch. If you can see him, then he can see you, or at least your helmet, visor, and oxygen mask. Therefore, he can easily see a right handed salute. You might also note that some people talking about left handed salutes are “aviation enthusiasts” or “pilots”, or an “aviation historian”. and have never taken a cat shot. Yet, that doesn’t keep them from making stuff up.