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Sandiego89
To insert my twopenneth at your query about dodgiest carrier jet I have always admired the Douglas A3 Skywarrier guys/gals.
An enormous aircraft with teenie-weenie engines of 1950s vintage still operating at Gulf War 1 in 1991.
I stress I am not of a Naval Aviator hertitage but have done AAR with them, and thought you have got to have big b***s
to operate that off a teenie weeie boat. (Is it still the heaviest aircraft to be catapulted from a boat?)
Believe you are quite right, MGTOW 82,000 lbs according to Wikipedia, about a third more than the A5J Vigilante, which I'd have thought would be the runner up.