P-47 Launching From A Carrier

"f86sabre" (f86sabre) 12/13/2013 at 22:36 • Filed to: Planelopnik

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Not something you see everyday.

Agrajag > f86sabre 12/13/2013 at 22:51

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Nice. Just yesterday I was looking for video of what I thought was the P-47 shooting German steam engines. Couldn't find it though. Off to look again.

The Transporter > f86sabre 12/13/2013 at 22:56

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Carriers were often used to transport AAF aircraft in the PTO during WWII. The planes would be loaded by crane and then the carrier (usually a "jeep" escort carrier) would set sail to the destination (usually some recently captured island with an airfield). Because most WWII pursuit aircraft didn't need catapult assist to launch, an AAF fighter could take off like a Naval aircraft. Once the ship was in range of the destination airfield, the aircraft would take off from the carrier and land on the island.

Icemanmaybeirunoutofthetalents > f86sabre 12/13/2013 at 23:27

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Open canopy. For that one time you need to bail quick :)

The Compromiser > Icemanmaybeirunoutofthetalents 12/14/2013 at 12:27

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Naw. Its the convertible model. ;)

All Motor Is Best Motor > The Transporter 12/14/2013 at 23:33

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Fascinating. I love hearing about things like this from WWII and the like. The things they did and managed with the technology they had back then are really amazing. In the same war where most nations involved were still supplying most of their infantry forces with bolt action rifles the atom bomb was both developed and (sadly [I don't want to discuss the ethics on if the bomb shortened the war or shouldn't have been used]) deployed. People were tuning in to news stories via radio, and video and photography technology had finally developed to a point where it was feasible to bring imagery from the war back home to the masses. A genuinely fascinating, if terrible time in the history of humanity.

The Transporter > All Motor Is Best Motor 12/15/2013 at 00:11

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My grandfather served in WWII as a field artillery computer. He didn't operate a computer, he was the computer. He used slide rules and tables to calculate shell trajectories. At the same time half a world away, scientists were using slide rules and tables to build atomic bombs that required timing precision in the picoseconds.

ttyymmnn > Icemanmaybeirunoutofthetalents 12/15/2013 at 22:23

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If you put it in the drink, you want to get out fast. Even into the early days of jet operations on carriers, pilots still took off and landed with their cockpits open.

Kugelblitz > The Transporter 12/16/2013 at 14:37

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If he was a US artilleryman, those tables were made by Univac, a room sized computer built with vacuum tubes. Since the US precalcuated everything and pushed the tables down to Fire Direction Centers, anyone with a radio could call for fires. Which made our artillery quite useful.