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The FJ-1 lacked carrier suitability; among other reasons, the plane kept losing its tail-hook in its landing gear.

First Man James R. Hansen 2005

The FJ-1 lacked carrier suitability; among other reasons, the plane kept losing its tail-hook in its landing gear.

First Man James R. Hansen 2005

The FJ-1 lacked carrier suitability; among other reasons, the plane kept losing its tail-hook in its landing gear.

First Man James R. Hansen 2005

The FJ-1 lacked carrier suitability; among other reasons, the plane kept losing its tail-hook in its landing gear.

First Man James R. Hansen 2005

As the wheels touched steel he shoved the throttles forward; if his tail-hook missed the arresting wire, he needed full power for a "bolter" -- a touch-and-go that would send him off the forward deck and around for a second pass.

Carrie Douglass, Keith 1991

Work continues on fixing the tail-hook system on the Navy variant, which must take off and land on carriers, as well as solving troubles with the helmet and the night-vision system.

NYT > Home Page By THOM SHANKER 2012

Military options add an aircraft carrier, catapult, tail-hook, enemy planes, battleships and machine guns.

Mac Game Files 2010

The reason we don't hear about it now is because it is usually only reported when it involves men in reference to women such as tail-hook.

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He chose ” this overnight clone of Honest Abe ” to arrive on the deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln on an S-3B Viking jet that came in with a dramatic tail-hook landing.

The White Man Unburdened Mailer, Norman 2003