Aircraft catapults

[McLovin1]

Why dont we have catapults on the carriers? They had hydrolic catapults in WWII!

[Motherland]

We don't need them. You can get anything off the deck under it's own power.

[McLovin1]

yes but it would be easier to get to speed and you wouldn't need flaps to get a F4F of the deck.

[mixtrate]

I have noticed, there is cats on the front of the carrier, but it's you can't use them, you just takeoff over them.

[Motherland]

yes but it would be easier to get to speed and you wouldn't need flaps to get a F4F of the deck.

You need the help of flaps to get an F4F off deck? Wow...

[McLovin1]

You need the help of flaps to get an F4F off deck? Wow...

its an F4 or F6 something but fully loaded its heavy

[Spikes]

NO...
If I can take a fully loaded lanc off a CV...you can take a fully loaded F6F off a CV...

[McLovin1]

i want to see a video of the lanc thing

[moot]

Some of the F4Us could use the help.

[Lukanian-7]

Back When 8 Player Was Around My Frind Took A B-17 Off, Too Bad A Damn Spit Shot Us Down!!!!

[SgtPappy]

If Sax ever gets his 2000 lb.-rated centreline bomb rack on the F4U-1D/-4 there will probably be a need for the catapults.

And the fact that we can take fully loaded Lancs off a CV in the first place kinda bothers me...

[Larry]

There are some buggy stuff with the new CV in fillms but here it is.


http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/4/24/1013733/lanc.ahf

[hunter128]

If Sax ever gets his 2000 lb.-rated centreline bomb rack on the F4U-1D/-4 there will probably be a need for the catapults.

now, i'm not an expert by any means...but if i recall correctly, that option was only used on land based corsairs.

[SgtPappy]

I think the 4000 lb. and 6000 lb. bomb loads were restricted to land-based F4U's but a single 2000 lb. bomb with 2x 500 ;b. bombs likely was not.

[Karnak]

Why dont we have catapults on the carriers? They had hydrolic catapults in WWII!

Only on British carriers as far as I recall.  US and Japanese carriers didn't use catapults, but their fleet carriers were significantly larger than British fleet carriers.