Interesting picture Yorktown in reverse, landing plane
john szalay wrote:
"a425couple" wrote in
The Yorktown steams full astern to land a TBF Avenger over the bow,
July 1943. Though provision for over-the-bow landing was a design
requirement, it was rarely practiced and the bow arresting gear was
soon eliminated."
IIRC: same as with the hanger deck catapult , out the side..
Rather than spam our newsgroup with ww2 stuff perhaps you could start
a new newsgroup for old technology...perhaps alt.old.technology.military.
just a suggestion
;-)
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