Aircraft Carrier EXTREME Drifting & Donuts – USS Abraham Lincoln High-Speed Turns (1min 21sec YouTube video)

YouTube ^ | 2017

[wannabegeek]

You said, "likely" or "maybe?"

I'd seen WW2 documentaries USS Enterprise CV-6 several times evaded torpedoes and bombs dropped from Japanese planes while waiting to recover planes and some waiting to take off in the battle of Guadal Canal.  I think it's different between war time and peace time.  This USS Abraham Lincoln CVN-72 must just came from dry dock routine maintenance on sea trial why on airplanes onboard.

[rlmorel]

Don't know, I am only speculating! I will say, a single engine fighter or bomber aircraft with a 24 point tie down (which this picture kind of looks like the Plane Captain is starting) is not going to move if it is in a well tended state.

We used 24 point tie downs a few times, and the thing that is really important is that they have to be taut. No slack in any of them. When we were in the North Atlantic aboard the JFK, I remember one time in particular that we used 24 point tie downs and that whole night and the next day, we had two man teams from each squadron, tied together IIRC, on a watch on the flight deck checking the chains constantly for loosening.

I feel confident that a ship could engage in that type of maneuvering with an airwing aboard, as long as the tie downs are well done and maintained.

[rlmorel]

I recall seeing one video of the USS Enterprise maneuvering in the Battle of Santa Cruz in 1942, turning so sharply you could see surrounding ships flying in and out of the field of view as that ship turned to avoid the enemy.

I could be wrong, but I recall there was footage of a plane not yet tied down, skipping and bouncing laterally as the ship maneuvered wildly.