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Interesting picture Yorktown in reverse, landing plane
Here is what is to me an interesting picture,
the USS Yorktown is sailing in reverse, the aft end of her flight deck is full, and a airplane is preparing to land, flying in over her bow. http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/021019.jpg Some of the discussion from: http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/10.htm "NS021037 USS Yorktown going at 20kts full astern, ready to take aircraft landing over the bow. The midships and after flight deck is full of parked aircraft, the deck-edge radio masts are folded down to the side for flight operations. Note four 40mm quads grouped around the island (USN photo, possibly taken not long before image NS021019, below)." http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/021019.jpg "NS021019 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." From a discussion at the newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.military |
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Interesting picture Yorktown in reverse, landing plane
"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.. |
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Interesting picture Yorktown in reverse, landing plane
"john szalay" john.szalayatatt.net wrote in message...
"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.. Side?? OK, below is proof of that. But I also was pretty sure that I've seen pictures (and some words) of the early Essex having a catapult to launch straight out the front of the hanger deck. ?? Meanwhile, as to side: http://warships1discussionboards.yuk...s#.VMk1fSwb3nE pictures, and "The hanger deck catapult looked like a good idea on paper. A third cat would allow for more aircraft to be launched, and you could still launch an observation plane or fighter even if the flight deck was unavailable, such as when aircraft were spotted to the forward part of the flightdeck to allow planes to land aft. But in practice it proved to be of little value: because it pointed to the side it did not benefit from the wind over the deck adding lift to the aircraft, so the hanger deck cat could not launch aircraft that were as heavy as the deck cats could. In addition, problem of not being able to launch planes when everything was spotted forward was solved by the deck cats themselves, which needed very little space to launch even a fully loaded aircraft. Enterprise reported at the end of 1941 that she had only fired her hanger cat three times in the entire year (for training, never out of need), so the Captain asked to have it removed. The Navy agreed that hanger cats were not worth the weight and they were removed from all US carriers " |
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Interesting picture Yorktown in reverse, landing plane
On 1/28/2015 11:21 AM, a425couple wrote:
Here is what is to me an interesting picture, the USS Yorktown is sailing in reverse, the aft end of her flight deck is full, and a airplane is preparing to land, flying in over her bow. http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/021019.jpg Some of the discussion from: http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/10.htm "NS021037 USS Yorktown going at 20kts full astern, ready to take aircraft landing over the bow. The midships and after flight deck is full of parked aircraft, the deck-edge radio masts are folded down to the side for flight operations. Note four 40mm quads grouped around the island (USN photo, possibly taken not long before image NS021019, below)." http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/021019.jpg "NS021019 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." From a discussion at the newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.military That might be true except this Pic is photshopped. The wake doesn't fit the rest of the picture. -- Visit http://droopyvids.com for free TV and Movies. One of the Largest Collections of Public Domain and Classic TV on the Internet. |
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Interesting picture Yorktown in reverse, landing plane
Daryl wrote:
Here is what is to me an interesting picture, the USS Yorktown is sailing in reverse, the aft end of her flight deck is full, and a airplane is preparing to land, flying in over her bow. http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/021019.jpg Some of the discussion from: http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/10.htm That might be true except this Pic is photshopped. The wake doesn't fit the rest of the picture. Wake looks consistent to me... |
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Interesting picture Yorktown in reverse, landing plane
"John Weiss" wrote in news:xn0jhkgb8774fd4000
@news.eternal-september.org: Daryl wrote: Here is what is to me an interesting picture, the USS Yorktown is sailing in reverse, the aft end of her flight deck is full, and a airplane is preparing to land, flying in over her bow. http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/021019.jpg Some of the discussion from: http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/10.htm That might be true except this Pic is photshopped. The wake doesn't fit the rest of the picture. Wake looks consistent to me... likewise, to me as well.. looks legit... |
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Interesting picture Yorktown in reverse, landing plane
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 ;-) |
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Interesting picture Yorktown in reverse, landing plane
On 1/28/2015 2:36 PM, John Weiss wrote:
Daryl wrote: Here is what is to me an interesting picture, the USS Yorktown is sailing in reverse, the aft end of her flight deck is full, and a airplane is preparing to land, flying in over her bow. http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/021019.jpg Some of the discussion from: http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/10.htm That might be true except this Pic is photshopped. The wake doesn't fit the rest of the picture. Wake looks consistent to me... I blew it up and checked where the wake meets the ship. -- Visit http://droopyvids.com for free TV and Movies. One of the Largest Collections of Public Domain and Classic TV on the Internet. |
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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. -- Visit http://droopyvids.com for free TV and Movies. One of the Largest Collections of Public Domain and Classic TV on the Internet. |
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Interesting picture Yorktown in reverse, landing plane
Daryl wrote:
Here is what is to me an interesting picture, the USS Yorktown is sailing in reverse, the aft end of her flight deck is full, and a airplane is preparing to land, flying in over her bow. http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/021019.jpg That might be true except this Pic is photshopped. The wake doesn't fit the rest of the picture. Wake looks consistent to me... I blew it up and checked where the wake meets the ship. The pic pixellates so badly that it is difficult to detect any photoshopping. I can see nothing that shouts out "fake". The shadows from the clouds are consistent, and don't suggest the ship or background was reversed. |
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