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Sea Venoms launching from HMS Albion during Suez crisis



 
 
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Old June 3rd 09, 09:19 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Indrek Aavisto Indrek Aavisto is offline
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Default Sea Venoms launching from HMS Albion during Suez crisis

Note the catapult strop falling away. It seems pretty wasteful. Does anyone
know why the RN decided to employ a strop when launching by catrapult?

I think the US carriers do not employ this method.

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Indrek Aavisto


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