Another try at rolling landings aboard ship

While the UK is still working on what will be 2 of the largest, dedicated helicopter carriers, some are still trying to get the Just So Failed aboard ship.

With this overweight and under-tested design, the U.K. is looking at rolling vertical landings in order to have better bring-back.

Hot/high missions should be interesting. Fortunately the U.K. and their allies never fight where it is hot.

Rolling landings were tried almost 100 years ago.

(IWM caption : Squadron Commander E H Dunning attempting to land his Sopwith Pup on the flying-off deck of HMS FURIOUS, Scapa Flow, 7 August 1917. He was killed when his aircraft veered off the flight deck and into the sea.)

(caption : Squadron Commander E H Dunning's Sopwith Pup veering off the flight deck of HMS FURIOUS during his second and fatal attempt to land on the carrier while underway, Scapa Flow.)

Then people decided there had to be a more consistent and safe way to get aircraft aboard ship.

What kind of capability is the UK buying with the F-35? As it stands, the Harrier will do more, better, cheaper, farther.

Alas, the U.K. got rid of their Harriers.

I wonder how much it will cost to get rid of the ski-jump in order to improve deck efficientcy for helicopter ops?