'chopper2004' said in this weird segue about Oz LHDs (there are other threads with at least one recent [
http://www.pprune.org/military-aviat...ml#post8529349 ] where some of this stuff is discussed but anyway...).
"... when selling off HMAS Sydney and the A-4 and MB339 fleet..."
Just for the record: HMAS Sydney the axial deck aircraft carrier operating only fixed wing props was sold for scrap in 1975 [
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Sydney_(R17) ]. HMAS Melbourne with angle deck operating A4Gs and S2E/Gs in last go around was sold for scrap in 1985 :
HMAS Melbourne (II) | Royal Australian Navy Macchi MB326Hs were the training jet aircraft of the RANFAA and RAAF.
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"How do all the automatics cope with a ski jump?"
Lockheed Martin rebuts F-35 critics on cost, progress Chris Pocock 15 Jul
2010
“...When asked how the F-35B compared to the Harrier in terms of ease of takeoff/landing, Tomlinson replied: “It’s chalk and cheese–and so it should be! This is a single-button operation with no special controls–much easier than the Harrier. For short takeoffs you just power up; the system takes care of everything else. On the ski-jump, for instance, the system detects the change in deck angle & doesn’t apply any rotation as it would on a flat deck.”...”
Lockheed Martin rebuts F-35 critics on cost, progress | Aviation International News