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04-01-2006, 07:16 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: niagara falls
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| aircraft carrier to be used for general aviation read thei little snippet of how this group plan to use former russian carrier as a stopover between the US and Hawaii http://www.aero-news.net/news/commbu...5005&Dynamic=1 |
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04-01-2006, 07:40 AM
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| "World Traveller"   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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  | Interesting pbfoot, I wonder how it will pan out.
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04-01-2006, 09:32 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
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| Pretty radical idea. It'll be interesting to see alright. |
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04-01-2006, 12:00 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Orange County, CA
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| I bet their insurance costs will be astonomical. Plus no matter how big a ship is, its still subject to rolling in the swells which would be a landing hazard for pilots to trained to handle that. I think its a non starter.
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04-01-2006, 01:30 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: London
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| Syscom is dead right, insurance companies wouldn't go near it, how do the planes stop without arrester gear, operating costs are huge for a carrier and they expect landing fees to cover it. This smells like an April Fool joke |
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04-01-2006, 01:46 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
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| Probably. |
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04-01-2006, 05:24 PM
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| "World Traveller" Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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| Agreed, I would say there would be lots of accidents as well with non-carrier trained pilots landing with no arrestor gear... Probably is an April Fool...
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04-01-2006, 10:13 PM
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|  i was gonna pull it after about 5 minutes when i realized it was a joke but figured maybe it'll suck someone else in |
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04-01-2006, 10:49 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
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| Uh-huh. Sure.  |
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04-02-2006, 12:59 AM
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| Der Crewchief   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| Interesting.
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04-02-2006, 03:03 AM
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| IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA
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| I'd like to see some Corp Pilot try to land his Citation on that
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04-02-2006, 10:59 AM
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| or a Japanese 747 get hijacked by a terrorist to do a kamikaze attack on it
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04-02-2006, 12:04 PM
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| Der Crewchief Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| Why would you like to see that? That is dumb. You obviously read a Tom Clancy book and by the way he flew the 747 into the Whitehouse not into an Aircraft Carrier.
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04-03-2006, 12:54 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Londonium
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| I thought in that book that some dude flew his F-16 into the 747 before it hits the whitehouse (he had no bullets or missiles) and saves the day? or am I thinking of a Dale Brown book?
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04-08-2006, 05:26 AM
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| even i can see that's a joke, it even has funny by the title..........
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