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I had no idea you could perform trials and Release to Service testing in a more benign environment than is likely to be encountered by operational users. Must be a new thing...
"the fact that much of the testing for the “mode four” maneuver was done with planes that were lighter, as they weren’t armed with heavy stores of weaponry. "
I believe there was a large amount of crowing about the skips ability to return to deck with unexpended ordinance..