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"Frank May" wrote in message ... ISTR reading in "Flying" magazine or something similar a long time ago about a small Cessna or Piper making an emergency landing on a carrier once. I also think I read where a Beech Twin Bonanza did likewise many years ago. Didn't the "Tora, Tora, Tora" movie Jap. replicas not only launch from the Yorktown, but land on it as well? Probably the most remarkable case involved the RAF Hurricanes of 46 squadron and Gladiators of 263 Squadron landed aboard HMS Glorious off Norway in April 1940 The aircraft had no arrestor gear and none of the pilots had ever landed on a carrier before and they were landing at night ! Nonetheless with sandbags strapped to the fuselage to slow them down and a party of matelots tasked to grab the tailplane to stop em going over the edge of the flight deck they all got down. Tragically though the ship was sunk next day by Scharnhorst & Gneisenau and most of the pilots were killed. Keith |
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