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12-03-2004, 02:37 PM
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Country:  | Yep  Even a Storch would have problems there
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12-03-2004, 06:08 PM
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How could a Storch not do it if Mossies, P-51's, B-25's, and P-40's could? | |
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12-04-2004, 05:27 AM
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Country: | No I mean on that particular photo...the P-47's are right near the end of the carrier, there's no way they'd be taking off from there...
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12-04-2004, 06:12 AM
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#109 | | He who does not skim
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Country:  | It was possible to launch land based aircraft from carriers (the Doolittle operation is a fine example), but they obviously couldn't land there.
But yeah, it seems pretty unlikely in the case of those P-47s. They do appear to be parked for ferrying.  | |
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12-04-2004, 06:26 AM
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I wouldnt have liked to have been taking off for the Doolittle operation in a B-25 though...
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12-04-2004, 10:39 AM
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#111 | | Master of Ewes
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How could a Storch not do it if Mossies, P-51's, B-25's, and P-40's could?
| the B-25 never landed on the carrier, it only took off from there.........
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12-04-2004, 11:09 AM
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12-04-2004, 04:02 PM
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Country:  | Glad you all liked the photo. The website has some good reading. But you all should know that P-47s were used off the CVEs to fly from then land on island bases. I know this photo is not one but I will keep looking.
P-47N best fighter out there! 
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12-08-2004, 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by the lancaster kicks ass Quote: |
How could a Storch not do it if Mossies, P-51's, B-25's, and P-40's could?
| the B-25 never landed on the carrier, it only took off from there......... | Once, a C-130 Hercules Was able to 
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12-08-2004, 05:31 PM
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#115 | | He who does not skim
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Originally Posted by MichaelHenley Once, a C-130 Hercules Was able to | Obviously a more modern super-carrier, right?
Given that the Herc was designed to operate from short runways, I think I can believe that. | |
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12-08-2004, 07:38 PM
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12-08-2004, 08:11 PM
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#118 | | He who does not skim
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Something you don't see everyday!  | |
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12-08-2004, 08:15 PM
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| Weird, same picture, completely different sites... | |
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12-09-2004, 03:43 AM
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Originally Posted by lesofprimus The fact that the shiitass P-40 got more votes than the N1K2 Shiden makes this poll useless.... There is no way u can even compare those 2 airframes, let alone say the P-40 was better.....
Bah on this poll...... | Quote: Take that idiot [Minoru] Genda. He could barely fly, but he jumped up and down about the Shiden-kai ["George"], so everybody else pretended to like it, too. That plane was a piece of crap, put together by a third-rate firm [Kawanishi].
- Saburo Sakai (Japan's leading surviving ace of WWII) | =S=
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