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From The Cockpit: The Nasty SHB

Scott Wolff 2 Comments Navy

As Paco says, “It’s a Navy thing. More, it’s a CV thing, ‘CV’ being the code for carrier, the kind of carrier that has cross-deck pendants and planes with hooks. The Sh!t Hot Break: if you know what it is, you’re smiling already.”

Although the days of The Big Fighter annihilating the break are sadly past, the Super Hornet community has done their best to pick it up where Nasty Manazir left off. For the pilots at VFA-211, the “Checkmates,” the rendition of the SHB is something they call The Triple Nickel: five hundred feet, five hundred knots, and .5 miles from the carrier.

The clip emphasizes the pure, unadulterated awesome that is the SHB. Go inside the Super Hornet cockpit to see what the SHB looks like from the perspective of the bro with stick and throttles in hand. Short of being a Naval Aviator, this is about as close as most will get to experiencing the SHB.

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Scott Wolff is an accomplished writer and renowned aviation photojournalist. He has held the position of Managing Editor for a print flying lifestyle magazine, and is the Host and Editor for FighterSweep. Scott's area of expertise is military flight operations, drawing on ten years of experience working extensively with all branches of the armed forces. He holds an FAA pilot certificate, the culmination of a life-long passion for flying airplanes. Scott has received military altitude chamber training, emergency egress training, and has logged time in a variety of civilian and military aircraft. He is also a member of the International Society of Aviation Photographers and Nikon Professional Services.

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