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Staggerwing

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Reply #360 on: February 12, 2020, 10:19:20 PM

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Reply #361 on: February 13, 2020, 06:20:52 AM
Such a sad thing - it looked amazing.  The concept of launching and recovering aircraft from it is fantastic.

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Reply #362 on: February 13, 2020, 06:32:29 AM
I wonder if the same concept could be used nowadays to deploy drone swarms for things like surveys or maybe SAR in inhospitable territory.

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Reply #363 on: February 13, 2020, 06:34:53 AM
Maybe so with computer guidance technology and modern airship concepts. The thing that gets me it the guts of the guys flying the aircraft and aiming for the hook gadget they used for recovery. Mind you, things were a wee bit slower then I guess.

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Reply #364 on: February 13, 2020, 07:32:01 AM
Maybe so with computer guidance technology and modern airship concepts. The thing that gets me it the guts of the guys flying the aircraft and aiming for the hook gadget they used for recovery. Mind you, things were a wee bit slower then I guess.

Speaking of guts- I know I've mentioned it a few times already but it bears remembering that eventually the landing gear was removed from the sparrow hawk scout fighters to increase speed and range. After all, since the ZRS airships were designed to operate far out at sea, where were the pilots going to land anyway?

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Reply #365 on: February 13, 2020, 07:44:35 AM
Wow! I didn't know that.

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Reply #366 on: February 13, 2020, 11:35:11 AM
This all reminded me of an 80s era Popular Mechanics article about airports in the sky...aircraft would dock with them in flight and they'd serve as way stations in the sky. All total fantasy but still interesting.

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Reply #367 on: February 13, 2020, 01:24:55 PM
You would need some rather large balloons for that :-)

...blimey,,back to Samantha Fox again...............

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Reply #368 on: February 13, 2020, 05:14:34 PM
Well, Bawb, as Gunny Rudy used   to say, better to have mind in gutter than foot.

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.


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Reply #369 on: February 14, 2020, 07:06:41 AM
A good sig line if ever I heard one  :bigthumb:

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Reply #370 on: February 14, 2020, 08:50:48 AM
Getting back to the dirigibles.
Jimmy Cagney was in movie with some great sequences on the west coast.
Here Comes the Navy.
Can't copy the address, but YouTube has the goodbits.

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.


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Reply #371 on: February 14, 2020, 09:02:26 AM
If that was supposed to be a Haiku, you failed miserably  ;D

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Reply #372 on: February 15, 2020, 11:50:52 AM
44 BC.  Marc Antony offers Julius Ceasar a crown three times.

Bawb, my best effort at haiku:

An army on the move,
A sniper in the grass,
Unfortunately.

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.


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Reply #373 on: February 15, 2020, 12:13:47 PM
 :bigthumb:

You may get extra kudos for cramming 5 syllables into one word  ;)

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Reply #374 on: February 17, 2020, 09:20:43 AM
1944.  The invasion of Eniwetok island, covered by the air attack on Truk, Operation Hailstone.
Although major units of The Combined Fleet had been withdrawn, up to forty cruisers, fesyroers, auxiliaries, and merchants are destroyed.
At one point, the light cruiser Katori and destroyer Maizake, escaped through the northern channel.
The old cruiser commander, Raymond Spruance, decided to take them out with a surface action group that included the battleships Iowa and New Jersey.
The Japanese ships were smothered by overwhelming firepower.  However, the sinking Maizake launched a spread of Long Lance torpedoes.
By deft maneuvering, they passed close between the battleships.
Spruance turn Ed to his Communication officer,. "Well, we won't try that again ."
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"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.