Charles Gray wrote:

: Only reasonable, since you have to add stuff to an airframe to make
:it carrier worthy, in addiiton to other improvements. To use it the
ther way around, either all you do is take some bits off, or just
:leave them as is. (I recall some German F-4's at an airshow that
:still had the arresting hook.).

Are you sure it was an arresting hook and not a 'short field' hook,
which is much lighter in structure?

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