Warbird Information Exchange

DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this site are the responsibility of the poster and do not reflect the views of the management.
It is currently Sat Apr 25, 2026 10:38 pm

All times are UTC - 5 hours


Classic Wings Magazine WWII Naval Aviation Research Pacific Luftwaffe Resource Center
When Hollywood Ruled The Skies - Volumes 1 through 4 by Bruce Oriss


Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 18 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2  Next
Author Message
PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:45 pm 
Offline
2000+ Post Club
2000+ Post Club

Joined: Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:27 am
Posts: 2463
Location: Ellerslie Georgia, USA
I have never seen this before Razorbacks being throuwn off a carrier WWII footage It is about 1/4th way into the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuSYH0Cl6Sw

enjoy

_________________
Kind Regards,
Gary Lewis
J.A.F.O.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:24 pm 
Offline
3000+ Post Club
3000+ Post Club
User avatar

Joined: Sun Nov 27, 2005 10:51 pm
Posts: 4674
Location: Cheshire, CT
In the Pacific, they were used to get the P-47's to the combat area quicker. I believe it happened more than once. P-40's were also launched off the Ranger during operation Torch in the Mediterranian.
Jerry

_________________
"Always remember that, when you enter the ocean or the forest, you are no longer at the top of the food chain."


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:31 pm 
Offline
Long Time Member
Long Time Member
User avatar

Joined: Mon May 03, 2004 5:42 pm
Posts: 5757
Location: Waukegan,Illinois
Pretty kool!! Set to the music from the Band of Brothers makes it that much better.

_________________
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: ???
PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:34 pm 
Offline
Co-MVP - 2006
User avatar

Joined: Sat May 01, 2004 11:21 pm
Posts: 11475
Location: Salem, Oregon
Many P-40 launches in the SWP in the 78th FS p-40Ks and the 44th FS p-40Fs also P-39s of the 21st FG.

_________________
Don't touch my junk!!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:35 pm 
Offline
3000+ Post Club
3000+ Post Club
User avatar

Joined: Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:11 pm
Posts: 3160
Location: MQS- Coatesville, PA
Jerry O'Neill wrote:
In the Pacific, they were used to get the P-47's to the combat area quicker. I believe it happened more than once. P-40's were also launched off the Ranger during operation Torch in the Mediterranian.
Jerry

I remember seeing special scissors used on the MLG which had the cat hook forged into it for this purpose.
Rich


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:58 pm 
Offline
2000+ Post Club
2000+ Post Club

Joined: Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:27 am
Posts: 2463
Location: Ellerslie Georgia, USA
I did not know this. I knew a C-130 is capable of landing and taking off an aircraft carrier, and that the B-25 can take off from an aircraft carrier, but had never seen a fighter like those described above, being shot off a carrier. Well, ya just never know.

_________________
Kind Regards,
Gary Lewis
J.A.F.O.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:07 pm 
Offline
3000+ Post Club
3000+ Post Club
User avatar

Joined: Sun Nov 27, 2005 10:51 pm
Posts: 4674
Location: Cheshire, CT
A B-25 DID land on a carrier too!
It was a Marine Corps PBJ and they were testing the feasiblity of it for carriers.
Jerry

_________________
"Always remember that, when you enter the ocean or the forest, you are no longer at the top of the food chain."


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:46 pm 
Offline
1000+ Posts!
1000+ Posts!

Joined: Sun Dec 31, 2006 5:11 pm
Posts: 1111
Location: Outer Space
U-2 took off and landed on a carrier too.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: ????
PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:54 pm 
Offline
Co-MVP - 2006
User avatar

Joined: Sat May 01, 2004 11:21 pm
Posts: 11475
Location: Salem, Oregon
USS Shangri-La on 11-15-1944
PBJ-1, BuNo 35277 s/n 43-4700 flown by LCDR Syd Bottomly USN XO VB-3 at Midway on June 4,1942 was credited with hitting a Japanese carrier and awarded the Navy Cross.

_________________
Don't touch my junk!!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:58 pm 
Offline
3000+ Post Club
3000+ Post Club
User avatar

Joined: Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:10 pm
Posts: 3258
Location: New York
gary1954 wrote:
I did not know this. I knew a C-130 is capable of landing and taking off an aircraft carrier ...


Well, hardly.

It was done a few times, as a test, and it was sufficiently hairy that the guy who did it was given a DFC and nobody ever considered doing it operationally, even in an emergency. To say that you can get away with a crazy stunt doesn't place it within the operational capability of the aircraft.

August


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:27 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:35 pm
Posts: 719
Location: Johnson City, TN
k5083 wrote:
gary1954 wrote:
I did not know this. I knew a C-130 is capable of landing and taking off an aircraft carrier ...


Well, hardly.

It was done a few times, as a test, and it was sufficiently hairy that the guy who did it was given a DFC and nobody ever considered doing it operationally, even in an emergency. To say that you can get away with a crazy stunt doesn't place it within the operational capability of the aircraft.

August


It was done more than a few times and it wasn't a crazy stunt. The pilot had only flown one propeller driven aircraft before the 130, an SNJ, and he was a jet test pilot. He got pretty comfortable with the TOAL's and proved the viability of a supply op with the 130 at all weights. The latest Flight Journal has a great article by the man himself. I don't have it in front of me but I think he made 29 landings each empty, mid weight and gross. Pretty impressive stuff showing what a versatile a/c the 130 is.

Steve G


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:29 pm 
Offline

Joined: Sat Nov 03, 2007 8:19 pm
Posts: 59
Location: Farmington, MN.
Those Jugs were sent off of the USS Manila Bay June 24 1944. They were 7th AF 318FG 73rdFS heading for Saipan. Four were launched the day before to try to catch two "Vals" that caught the carrier refueling from a tanker. (The Vals bombs missed.)There is a youtube video of just the P47s, I would link here if I knew how. Type USS Manila Bay in the youtube search box. Hugh

_________________
My father was a a/c armorer 7th aaf 318FG 73FS


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:35 pm 
Offline
2000+ Post Club
2000+ Post Club
User avatar

Joined: Thu May 10, 2007 6:08 pm
Posts: 2595
Location: Mississippi
maxum96 wrote:
U-2 took off and landed on a carrier too.

um...no?

_________________
"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:50 pm 
Offline
1000+ Posts!
1000+ Posts!

Joined: Sun Dec 31, 2006 5:11 pm
Posts: 1111
Location: Outer Space
muddyboots wrote:
maxum96 wrote:
U-2 took off and landed on a carrier too.

um...no?


According to Ben Rich they did operate U-2s off carriers.

Page 187 of Ben Rich's book

"In late 1963, we began launching U-2s from U.S. aircraft carriers, having developed a workable tailhook. In May 1964 , the U-2 took off from the USS Ranger to monitor French nuclear tests in an atoll in French Polynesia, but only after one of our test pilots, Bob Schumacher, crashed while landing on deck."


"The flights were secret, and the carrier crew had to go below deck when the bird took off and landed."


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:00 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:32 pm
Posts: 446
Location: NC
I have no problem believing the U2 could take off from a carrier, even without the catapault. We used to watch them take off outside the Radar shack at Patrick, it seemed like they could be airborne in 100ft, But to land one? The sea would have to be really flat. I don't think the gear is set up for that sort of stress, but I could be wrong.

B

_________________
documenting restored B-17s and those undergoing restoration to flight:


Top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 18 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2  Next

All times are UTC - 5 hours


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Google Adsense [Bot] and 127 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group