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And Beyond Awesome on a Zuiho!!

I just down-loaded it last night for this weekend's ops. Looks good! Sorry about that. Don't change anything. It just seemed a bit big for those smaller carriers. Oh well......

Glad everything is OK - and Happy Birthday!!

The Midway class carriers didn't operate the F-14's because of a combination of factors including upgrades needed to operate. They certainly could operate them as evidenced by the emergency recovery and launch of Tomcats on the Midway. My initial thought on sea trial is "no way".... (quickly looks up data base) dang - you're right!! http://www.usscoralsea.net/pages/f111.php I stand corrected.

The comparison is not between the F-111B and any variant of the F-14. The Coral Sea and Roosevelt never operated F-14's because they were too small. The Midway (with a slightly larger deck) only "operated" F-14's once in an emergency. Taking either the F-14 or the F-111B aboard Coral Sea or Roosevelt would have been a truly frightening experience!! Only the big decks could/could have handled either of those aircraft. CV-59 on up.

F-111B's on the Coral Sea and Roosevelt?!!! That would have been more than exciting!!

Reportedly based on an actual CVR http://www.xtranormal.com/xtraplayr/13404616/meet-the-new-fo

So that's what happened to the CA servers...........

Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and Congrats Stary!!

I'll drink to that!! perhaps a Bourbon Cafe on Pepsi St somewhere...............

Waaaay too easy - and of course there's always Bourbon Street!!

Hit on May 4th, foundered under tow on May 10th, 30 years ago today.

Moving around in the back of an E-2 with all that $#@!#%^ was bad enough (no night vision goggles/HMD) I think we are in violent agreement. I think the "human factors engineering" in that set up was a little more than a contributory factor.

I read that accident report too and was struck by the situation the "mishap pilot" found himself in. At night, tactical manuevering at mach +, headed downhill and the OBOGS shuts off - leaving him with zero airflow. Somewhat disconcerting. In order to activate his emergency bottle in the seatpan he has to reach around (bumping various things like the control stick in the process) and pull the handle. This leaves him headed downhill and mach+, at night, over mountainous terrain. gosh - he didn't maintain his situational awareness WHEN HIS AIRFLOW WENT TO ZERO. experiment for anyone who cares to try this - while running about one mile into a two mile run stuff a dirty sock into your mouth without breaking stride and reach behind into your backpack to pull a water bottle out and pour it over your head, with your eyes closed. Report results...........

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Happy Birthday Don and Dave!!

Awesome work!! Midway (with 2 cats and 3 wires) and Belknap?

Without a hook, that looks like fun! The picture above shows a couple of catapults - so a full size CV. An LPH/LHA would have certainly have the deck space too. exciting!