Netko wrote in
:

On Fri, 30 May 2014 20:24:41 +0100, Syke wrote
(in article ):

P-39 Airacobra.

Thanks. I was put off the scent becasue I've never heard of the RN
ever showing interest in the P-39, far less trying it out on a
carrier.

Then again, it's Eric Brown we're talking about and he seems to have
tried out just about everything on a carrier.



P-39 AH574, which was passed to the Royal Navy and used for
experimental work, including the first carrier landing
by a tricycle undercarriage aircraft on 4 April 1945
on HMS Pretoria Castle, scrapped March 1946.

Brown, Captain Eric. Wings on My Sleeve.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006. ISBN 0-297-84565-9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH574