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To: Yo-Yo
the one slated to be the first with cats

(Hoping that someone will photoshop some felines landing on an aircraft carrier.) So the Brits have never had anything other than harriers or helos on their carriers? And they don't know how to cat and trap? Who's going to train them?

50 posted on 11/15/2010 3:03:26 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: rabidralph
(Sorry for the tardy reply, I've been off the grid for a week.)

So the Brits have never had anything other than harriers or helos on their carriers? And they don't know how to cat and trap? Who's going to train them?

The Brits pioneered several aspects of carrier operations. They invented the angled flight deck for landing, they developed the steam catapult for launching aircraft, they launched and recoverd the first jet aircraft, and they developed the stabilized glide slope indicator.

Until the 1978, the Brits operated F-4 Phantom IIs from catapult carriers.

They'll be fine.

52 posted on 11/23/2010 9:36:56 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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