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"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" writes:
JStONGE123 wrote:
Why was the P-51 not used on aircraft carriers during WWII? Beside
the obvious no tail hook.....ect.


No tail hook. No extra heavy duty landing gear for carrier "landings". No
folding wing. No need.... the F6F was quite capable in its place.

A liquid cooled engine, with all the plumbing and coolant requirments
that that entails. Wasn't it Admiral Apollo Souchek, or his brother
Zeus, who stated that "Putting a water-cooled engine on a carrier
aircraft is like putting an air-cooled engine in a submarine."

It should be noted that a P-51D was, in fact, fitted with a tailhook,
and did successfully complete a series of traps & takeoffs from a
carrier at sea, late in the war. North Americal also did the same
with a PBJ (Marine Corps B-25)

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