Hey, Juan Grande! Pardon my kidding about you on that other thread. You do a great job of giving us some humor during these dark days when everybody is at each others throats. I know you know that that was only a bad joke, but I do want to give you props in the GIF department. If they ever create a job of Chief Operating Officer in charge of GIF's ayaoau wiall surely be the man for the job!
In light of how much some folks are at each others' throats, I want to leave a serious video of someone with a serious problem, who handles it with more skill and assurance than can be believed. A pilot of an AV-8B Harrier jump jet realizes after takeoff from the Amphibious Assault Ship USS Bataan that his nose landing gear has failed. With the help of his Landing Signal Officer, a fellow pilot in the ships control tower, he makes a perfect vertical landing placing the nose of the Harrier on a "stool" made for just this kind of emergency. Thing is, he could not even see the stool, which is barely wider than the width of the nose of the aircraft while landing. He said that the landing was so intense, that when it was over he had to think to remember how to turn off the airplane! I am sure that he was at least partially just kidding, but it goes to show you that some folks have more important things to be concerned about, than some of the issues that seem to get us all worked up in the off season. Hats off to our military personnel, many of whom get little recognition for doing jobs that sometimes are just as dangerous as this skilled bit of flying by one of our finest.