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To: Enterprise

Thanks...That sounds right, I remember reading when landing an F4U on a carrier the pilot was practically blind.


44 posted on 01/24/2009 10:49:54 AM PST by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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Yeah, the long nose obstructed the pilot’s view of the carrier deck and the Landing Signal Officer, so Corsair pilots had to adopt the tactic of approaching the carrier immediately behind the flight deck from the port side and at a 45 degree angle, then banking hard and flaring for a blind slam down. Small wonder they were reassigned to land-based duty!


107 posted on 01/25/2009 8:32:19 PM PST by Zman516 (socialists & muslims -- satan's useful idiots.)
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