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GA on Aircraft Carrier???
Out of curiosity, has anyone ever heard of a GA aircraft doing a touch and
go (or landing) on an aircraft carrier? |
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On a carrier, I think it'd properly be called a 'touch and go then
guantanamo bay'. |
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If it was unauthorised then quite rightly so - it just occured to me that
for all of the hundreds of carrier takeoffs I've seen on video, not one was a GA aircraft. I just wondered if any GA pilot has ever asked? Or if some GA pilot knows the captain and has been given permission etc etc etc. "Ben Hallert" wrote in message oups.com... On a carrier, I think it'd properly be called a 'touch and go then guantanamo bay'. |
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"Cockpit Colin" wrote: If it was unauthorised then quite rightly so - it just occured to me that for all of the hundreds of carrier takeoffs I've seen on video, not one was a GA aircraft. I just wondered if any GA pilot has ever asked? Or if some GA pilot knows the captain and has been given permission etc etc etc. "Ben Hallert" wrote in message oups.com... On a carrier, I think it'd properly be called a 'touch and go then guantanamo bay'. During the Korean War, a friend of mine ferried Army staff officers to the Hornet to plan the Inchon invasion -- in an L-17 Navion. After the fall of Saigon, RVN pilots (with families aboard) landed L-19s on carriers to escape the Communists. One of those L-19s is on display at the pensacola museum. |
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Cockpit Colin opined
Out of curiosity, has anyone ever heard of a GA aircraft doing a touch and go (or landing) on an aircraft carrier? Seems to me that Sky King landed his 310 on a carrier. -ash Cthulhu in 2005! Why wait for nature? |
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:06:21 +1300, "Cockpit Colin"
wrote: Out of curiosity, has anyone ever heard of a GA aircraft doing a touch and go (or landing) on an aircraft carrier? A few years ago the Navy sponsored something on the East coast and my friend was able to take his SNJ onto a carrier. Many other planes also landed on the carrier. He was not allowed to land the plane himself, but was allowed to take off. I don't know the details but the pictures were really cool, and he had one of the best times in his life. I also don't know if a civilian owned ex-military aircraft meets your criteria. z |
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:12:50 +1300, "Cockpit Colin"
wrote: If it was unauthorised then quite rightly so - it just occured to me that for all of the hundreds of carrier takeoffs I've seen on video, not one was a GA aircraft. I just wondered if any GA pilot has ever asked? Or if some GA pilot knows the captain and has been given permission etc etc etc. when the carriers are on R&R and are parked in gage roads off fremantle we fly past and think "that'd be easy" however there is a 5 mile exclusion zone created around each carrier. air traffic control watch it like a hawk. my personal opinion is that it isnt hard but you have no chance of finding out. Stealth Pilot |
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Out of curiosity, has anyone ever heard of a GA aircraft doing a touch and go (or landing) on an aircraft carrier? Sure. L-4s took off from an aircraft carrier for Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa in November 1942. The navy also had landing craft converted to takeoff-only carriers for L-4s in the invasion of Sicily and other places. There was even an LST with a wire slung on the starboard side, for L-4s and L-5s to take off AND LAND. Called the Brodie Device. www.pipercubforum.com/lbird.htm At least one Cessna 172? landed on a U.S. aircraft carrier in the 1975 evacuation of Saigon, flown by a VNAF pilot with his family aboard. The plane of course was shoved overboard, like many another. -- all the best, Dan Ford email (put Cubdriver in subject line) Warbird's Forum: www.warbirdforum.com Piper Cub Forum: www.pipercubforum.com the blog: www.danford.net |
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Cockpit Colin wrote: Out of curiosity, has anyone ever heard of a GA aircraft doing a touch and go (or landing) on an aircraft carrier? As others have posted, military Navions landed on carriers. I have also seen a film of the Vietnamese 172 pilot landing on a carrier in 1975. A friend of mine is a Navy (and former GA) pilot. We've often discussed the possibility of getting a GA aircraft on the deck. Assuming the wires are down, it wouldn't be that difficult to do if the boat was steaming into the wind. If you assume a (roughly) 40 knot headwind, the landing roll on a light single should be short enough to stop with room to spare. John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180) |
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" wrote: Assuming the wires are down, it wouldn't be that difficult to do if the boat was steaming into the wind. They could let the thing drift, as far as I'm concerned. Maules don't need much room. George Patterson The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. |
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