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Title: hanger deck takeoff
Post by: Jose Gallegos on November 14, 2002, 04:47:26 PM

see attachment

Title: hanger deck takeoff
Post by: udet on November 14, 2002, 06:45:09 PM

is that from a battleship?

Title: hanger deck takeoff
Post by: Jose Gallegos on November 15, 2002, 05:53:37 PM

The caption that accompanied the photo said this was a CV-12 (USS Hornet) hanger deck catapult.  In the WWII move "A Wing And A Prayer", there's a short sequence near the end that shows a TBF Avenger being catapulted from the hanger deck, no the flight deck.

Title: hanger deck takeoff
Post by: whgates3 on November 15, 2002, 06:45:18 PM

a captapult for AH might help some of us launch overloaded corsairs from the CV

Title: hanger deck takeoff
Post by: vatiAH on November 16, 2002, 12:14:32 AM

The Yorktown class, Wasp, and Essex had Hanger deck cats. The idea was scout planes could be launched without having to respot a deck load of planes.  

Vati