Fleet Air Arm, Part 1 - faa09-SeaVenom.jpg (1/1) [70K]
On 12/03/2011 10:24 AM, Netko wrote:
Sea Venom FAW 21 of 893 Squadron crash landing on Eagle following damage from
anti-aircraft fire during Operation Musketeer, November 1956
It's not crash landing. It was _intentionally_ landed this way to test
a new landing system - rubber surfaced flight deck!
That's why aircraft carriers today put the rubber on the aircraft tyres,
not the carrier.
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