"27 Charlie " Topic
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| Tango01 | 07 Jul 2014 12:33 p.m. PST |
"Modern American Super Carriers are mighty globe-spanning weapons costing billions. They are manned by many thousands of highly trained men and women who berth in air-conditioned comfort. Modern jets with digital flight control systems operate from the enormous flight decks with near total safety and with accident rates not too different from commercial aviation.
This is not about that. This is about the family of carriers one third that size that were hastily built to whip the Japanese in the Pacific during WW II, and then converted in the early '50s with small angled flight decks and steam catapults, making it, in theory, possible to operate the jets then coming into service. Those airplanes were completely analog, were difficult and dangerous to fly, and relied completely on piloting skill to ward off disaster. And, especially on Yankee Station in Vietnam in the '60s and early '70s, disaster could happen in the blink of an eye…" link Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement
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| Allen57 | 07 Jul 2014 4:17 p.m. PST |
Great find. I served from 1965-68 on a 27 Charlie (USS ORISKANY). Many memories. |
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