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Go watch some R/C glider pilots sometime. It is absolutely amazing to watch a pilot single-handedly bring his bird in from fifty feet away five feet off the ground, fly it directly towards himself, and get the timing on the flare so perfect that it stalls in his other hand.

If a bunch of hobbyists can do that even with wind gusts (gusts + hills seem to attract R/C glider pilots), there's no reason someone couldn't cleanly land something remotely on a carrier that usually carries aircraft seven times as heavy.