World War One in Colour - "Blood in the Air"

[rabu 9]

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Edited May 12, 2010 by rabu

[Flyby PC 23]

Regarding the films themselves, I'd never before seen the early RNAS planes taking off from battleships with a tiny runway supported by the big guns!!! That's just incredible.

 

Want one of those in P4. - A big battleship with a snooker table from the mess for take offs!

[Olham 164]

...never before seen the early RNAS planes taking off from battleships with a tiny runway supported by the big guns!!! That's just incredible.

Only possible with a Sopwith. My good old sturdy Albatros would ditch in like a stone.

The only German craft that could - perhaps - do that, would be the Fokker Dr.1 and E.V, I suppose.

[rabu 9]

...never before seen the early RNAS planes taking off from battleships with a tiny runway supported by the big guns!!! That's just incredible.

Only possible with a Sopwith. My good old sturdy Albatros would ditch in like a stone.

The only German craft that could - perhaps - do that, would be the Fokker Dr.1 and E.V, I suppose.

 

 

What I'm wondering is, how did they land when they came back?

 

Did they ditch the plane, or what, they never said?

[rabu 9]

What I'm wondering is, how did they land when they came back?

 

Did they ditch the plane, or what, they never said?

 

 

Why do I get the feeling ....

 

No one knows?

[Duce Lewis 3]

Why do I get the feeling ....

 

No one knows?

Rabu, just an old memory from documentaries

I believe the RNAS made raids on the Zeppelins Hangars with ship lauched Camels

IIRC, they ditched beside the ships upon their return

[Flyby PC 23]

I know the CAM ships of WW2, (Catapult Aircraft Merchant) had facilities to launch an aircraft but not to recover it, and that elsewhere, float planes were recovered by crane. I've seen photo's my dad took of swordfish floatplanes being lifted.

 

If the aircraft had no bouyancy to stay on the surface, I suspect the chances of recovery at sea of anything but the pilot were nil. I expect you'd need to ditch alongside and swim for it, find a carrier in your group if there was such a thing, or take your chances like the 1942 Doolittle rain on Tokyo trying to find dry land, hopefully friendly. It begs the question under what desperate circumstances the plane would be launched.

[markl 1]

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Thanks for the link. I did not know about this one and it looks good.

 

Cheers MarkL

[rabu 9]

I know the CAM ships of WW2, (Catapult Aircraft Merchant) had facilities to launch an aircraft but not to recover it, and that elsewhere, float planes were recovered by crane. I've seen photo's my dad took of swordfish floatplanes being lifted.

 

If the aircraft had no bouyancy to stay on the surface, I suspect the chances of recovery at sea of anything but the pilot were nil. I expect you'd need to ditch alongside and swim for it, find a carrier in your group if there was such a thing, or take your chances like the 1942 Doolittle rain on Tokyo trying to find dry land, hopefully friendly. It begs the question under what desperate circumstances the plane would be launched.

 

Brutal.. Landing on water, even when it's calm can be suicide; wonder how many survived? Those guys must have had the same commitment as the Kamikaze fliers in WWII !