Author Topic: Aircraft catapults  (Read 2314 times)

Offline McLovin1

  • Zinc Member
  • *
  • Posts: 92
Aircraft catapults
« on: April 06, 2008, 01:47:56 PM »
Why dont we have catapults on the carriers? They had hydrolic catapults in WWII!

Offline Motherland

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 8110
Re: Aircraft catapults
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2008, 01:50:54 PM »
We don't need them. You can get anything off the deck under it's own power.

Offline McLovin1

  • Zinc Member
  • *
  • Posts: 92
Re: Aircraft catapults
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2008, 01:51:47 PM »
yes but it would be easier to get to speed and you wouldn't need flaps to get a F4F of the deck.

Offline mixtrate

  • Zinc Member
  • *
  • Posts: 3
Re: Aircraft catapults
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2008, 01:57:52 PM »
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.

Offline Motherland

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 8110
Re: Aircraft catapults
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2008, 02:01:04 PM »
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...

Offline McLovin1

  • Zinc Member
  • *
  • Posts: 92
Re: Aircraft catapults
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2008, 02:02:06 PM »
You need the help of flaps to get an F4F off deck? Wow...
its an F4 or F6 something but fully loaded its heavy

Offline Spikes

  • Aces High CM Staff
  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 15851
    • Twitch: Twitch Feed
Re: Aircraft catapults
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2008, 02:14:09 PM »
NO...
If I can take a fully loaded lanc off a CV...you can take a fully loaded F6F off a CV...
i7-12700k | Gigabyte Z690 GAMING X | 64GB G.Skill DDR4 | EVGA 1080ti FTW3 | H150i Capellix

FlyKommando.com

Offline McLovin1

  • Zinc Member
  • *
  • Posts: 92
Re: Aircraft catapults
« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2008, 02:19:51 PM »
i want to see a video of the lanc thing

Offline moot

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 16333
      • http://www.dasmuppets.com
Re: Aircraft catapults
« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2008, 02:49:34 PM »
Some of the F4Us could use the help.
Hello ant
running very fast
I squish you

Offline Lukanian-7

  • Copper Member
  • **
  • Posts: 243
      • Lukanian-7's MySpace
Re: Aircraft catapults
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2008, 03:09:48 PM »
Back When 8 Player Was Around My Frind Took A B-17 Off, Too Bad A Damn Spit Shot Us Down!!!! :furious

Offline SgtPappy

  • Silver Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 1174
Re: Aircraft catapults
« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2008, 03:18:50 PM »
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...
I am a Spitdweeb

"Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of earth... Put out my hand and touched the face of God." -J.G. Magee Jr.

Offline Larry

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 6123
Re: Aircraft catapults
« Reply #11 on: April 06, 2008, 03:41:51 PM »
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
Once known as ''TrueKill''.
JG 54 "Grünherz"
July '18 KOTH Winner


Offline hunter128

  • Copper Member
  • **
  • Posts: 285
Re: Aircraft catapults
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2008, 05:33:11 PM »
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.
Darth2
71 'Eagle' Squadron RAF
"I strive for better flying....when I'm not flying into the ground"
"By the way, this entire thread is dumber than a sack of dead cats....." - Widewing

Offline SgtPappy

  • Silver Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 1174
Re: Aircraft catapults
« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2008, 06:05:48 PM »
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.
I am a Spitdweeb

"Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of earth... Put out my hand and touched the face of God." -J.G. Magee Jr.

Offline Karnak

  • Radioactive Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 23048
Re: Aircraft catapults
« Reply #14 on: April 06, 2008, 08:51:09 PM »
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.
Petals floating by,
      Drift through my woman's hand,
             As she remembers me-