The First Jet Landing on a Carrier
http://fly.historicwings.com/2012/11/the-first-jet-landing-on-a-carrier/
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Jeepers, you'd think they'd have chosen a longer ship than an 8,000 ton Cassabalanca.
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Admiral Beez wrote:Jeepers, you'd think they'd have chosen a longer ship than an 8,000 ton Cassabalanca.More out of necessity than choice!
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Yep... he was trying to land using the piston engine and it failed, forcing him to restart the jet engine and land anyway.
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a 'The Hook' article on this airplane ("The Hook', regrettably, does not index itself).A comment about an FR pilot who took off and observed that, for a change, 'the gear got into the wells before the...
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Interestingly, even though the FR Fireball went nowhere, mixed propulsion for naval aircraft was resurrected a few years later for the French Navy's Breguet Vultur. This prototype seems to have been...
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I'll look for PDF magazine edition online also... http://www.airwarriors.com/community/index.php?threads/seldom-seen-naval-aircraft-of-yesteryear.30226/page-2"From The Hook magazine Winter 2002...
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HK wrote:Interestingly, even though the FR Fireball went nowhere, mixed propulsion for naval aircraft was resurrected a few years later for the French Navy's Breguet Vultur. This prototype seems to...
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I know, I was thinking more specifically about mixed propulsion for carrier aircraft. For a time it was a very effective solution to an important operational problem (jet engines' poor thrust response...
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I have to think this is the first instance of a jet being on a carrier's deck, landed by crane of course.
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I guess there will be lots of instances after any first. HMAS (not HMS temporarily) Vengeance Iwakuni Oct 1954 with RAAF No.77 Sqdn Meteors on way back to Oz.
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The meteor wings look ideal for folding. Here's the Meteor carrier trials in 1948. The FAA apparently decided to go with the Attacker instead.A naval Meteor could have given quite a bite in the...
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Thanks Beez - you are indeed the 'beesknees'. Do you have a link to those photos elsewhere online or are they your scans from a book? I'm interested to follow this METEOR up and I know I can search on...
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SpazSinbad wrote:Thanks Beez - you are indeed the 'beesknees'. Do you have a link to those photos elsewhere online or are they your scans from a book? I'm interested to follow this METEOR up and I...
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Good video of the Vicker Supermarine 508 landing on HMS Eagle. A cool looking fighter, IMO http://www.britishpathe.com/video/vickers-supermarineLooks like the chaps at Avro Canada shared the design...
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