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Charles Talleyrand wrote: Suppose someone tried to land an F4F Wildcat on a modern American aircraft carrier. We'll give the carrier a few hours to prepare, and lets assume the carrier is at sea and moving. Can a WWII fighter land on a modern carrier? Can it get back in the air? Given the much lower take off and landing speeds of WW2 aircraft, I'd not think there'd be a problem. At the extreme of low take off and landing speeds, ISTR the fleet Air Arm museum's Swordfish landing on and taking off from Illustrious a year or so ago as part of the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Taranto raid - which of course would not present any problem to a Stringbag as Illustrious, while smaller than US carriers, is a lot bigger than many of the ships Swordfish operated from. -- Andy Breen ~ Interplanetary Scintillation Research Group http://users.aber.ac.uk/azb/ "Time has stopped, says the Black Lion clock and eternity has begun" (Dylan Thomas) |
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