Interesting picture Yorktown in reverse, landing plane

On 1/28/2015 3:26 PM, Dr. Vincent Quin, Ph.D. wrote:
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
;-)

Whether it's legit or not, it's still about Military Aviation. Beats
the hell out of your posts.

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