Watch This Regular Airplane Land Vertically on a Cargo Ship

That's a very cool plane, and some excellent flying too!

So they've reinvented the Lysander?

I expect the ship was heading into the wind. If the wind speed over the deck were faster than the aircraft stall speed, any decent pilot should be able to do this without any problem. It's no more difficult that putting it on the runway.

Or the Pilatus Porter?

Still, no matter what kind of plane it was, or how you slice it, making a takeofff and landing on a ship like that, through all the turbulence it's passage generates, and with the ship undoubtedly pitching through three axes of motion, is an incredible feat!

By comparison with the Pilatus, it is said that they regularly took off and landed from IndoChinese hill slopes (with 30+ mph headwinds coming down them) in near vertical "float mode". But that only requires steady hands, and no adjustment for motion of the landing/takeoff platform. And even THAT would have been a sight to see!

Getting around the aft superstructure looks a bit dicey.

The idea is far from new:

The Storch

Not to take anything away from the pilot, but the video clip sucked.

IMHO there was too much jumping from one scene (camera angle) to another making it difficult to follow, then jumping back to a previous scene.