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cavuman1 26th May 2022 15:25

Aircraft Not Designed For But Operating From Aircraft Carriers
 
Is the membership able to cite other examples?
Carrier Ops With Unlikely Craft

- Ed

Sue Vêtements 26th May 2022 15:37

I'll take the starter for ten

B25

NutLoose 26th May 2022 15:44

Bird Dog

https://cessnabirddog.org/2017/08/th...ajor-buang-ly/


134brat 26th May 2022 15:49

Prestwick Pioneers from Seletar visited the deck of HMS Centaur and (maybe) Eagle.

Davef68 26th May 2022 16:03

AAC Beavers operated from carriers in the Middle and Far East in the 60s,

http://www.dhc-2.com/1489_XP824_Rich...flight_450.jpg

various types of Austers did the same earlier.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ger_A21295.jpg
The RN did the same with Tiger Moths

https://fft-keymilitary.b-cdn.net/si...?itok=37fQjm5m

Eric Brown flew both the Airacobra and Fiesler Storch on and off carriers.(The latter he landed ON the deck lift so it just needed wings folded and taken down)

Davef68 26th May 2022 16:04

BN Islander

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EgsqOSSWkAAJNf9.jpg

Crromwellman 26th May 2022 16:07


Originally Posted by 134brat (Post 11235967)
Prestwick Pioneers from Seletar visited the deck of HMS Centaur and (maybe) Eagle.

How about the Army Air Corps Beavers based in Aden

cavuman1 26th May 2022 16:09

How 'bout good thing he snagged the fourth wire!
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....e26a65dc62.jpg

- Ed ;)

Herod 26th May 2022 17:44

Spitfires and Hurricanes. OK, off only, but. And don't forget the Hurricanes operating from the merchant ships, again off only.

AlphaMikeTango 26th May 2022 18:00

Didn't the P-51D Mustang undergo carrier trials?

MPN11 26th May 2022 18:15

Vampire … Winkle Brown

C-130?

uxb99 26th May 2022 18:54

US Navy trialling X-Wing Snub nosed fighters from the USS Long Island.
https://www.navyhistory.org/wp-conte...12/itUSUKX.jpg

Ken Scott 26th May 2022 18:57


Spitfires and Hurricanes. OK, off only, but. And don't forget the Hurricanes operating from the merchant ships, again off only.
One Hurricane pilot having taken off the carrier for Ceylon had engine problems so landed back on, sans hook. Impressed the Navy chaps, apparently. I can’t remember his name but he was a 30 Sqn Sgt pilot as I recall.

212man 26th May 2022 19:15


Originally Posted by Herod (Post 11236021)
Spitfires and Hurricanes. OK, off only, but. And don't forget the Hurricanes operating from the merchant ships, again off only.

Well Seafire could land too

KPax 26th May 2022 19:39

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....f7137b0303.jpg

Chugalug2 26th May 2022 19:49


Originally Posted by Ken Scott (Post 11236068)
One Hurricane pilot having taken off the carrier for Ceylon had engine problems so landed back on, sans hook. Impressed the Navy chaps, apparently. I can’t remember his name but he was a 30 Sqn Sgt pilot as I recall.

Sgt Whittaker was the 30 Sqn Hurricane pilot who landed safely back on HMS Indomitable sans arrester hook, following engine problems ATO on 20th March 1942. The aircraft, along with 19 other Hurricanes, had taken off from the carrier for Ratmalana, having been uncrated and assembled on board during the voyage. The reinforcement of Ceylon was just in time and the squadron played a vital role in repelling the anticipated attack by the Japanese Imperial Navy. Note that yet again the wily Japanese attacked on a Sunday, when of course the AD Radars were unmanned....

https://raf-waddington.com/history/ceylon2.html

lightonthewater 26th May 2022 19:54

From memory, Eric Brown's book stated that he landed a DH Mosquito on a carrier (and took off again).

pilotmike 26th May 2022 20:26


Dave Garrison completed a world microlighting first by making several take-offs and landings on HMS Illustrious, one of the Royal Navy's 'small' aircraft carriers, flying a Pegasus Q 462. This exercise in precision flying involved landing on a 'strip' barely wider than the Q's wingspan, lined with Sea Kings and Harriers and subject to the turbulence created by the bow wave.
https://www.bmaa.org/the-bmaa/bmaa-h...a-history-1989
https://www.bmaa.org/images/bmaa-his...ing-7sjf9y.jpg

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....a5226f68b2.jpg

sunnybunny 26th May 2022 20:34


Originally Posted by 212man (Post 11236077)
Well Seafire could land too

didn’t some hurricanes land on HMS glorious when being evacuated from Norway?

Less Hair 26th May 2022 20:35

The U-2 did.


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