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So it's wings does fold or wing sweep and fit into the elevator and into the hangar?
CV-16 Liaoning (001 carrier) Thread II ...News, Views and operations
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So it's wings does fold or wing sweep and fit into the elevator and into the hangar?
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Vigilante had a single vertical tail plane but I read somewhere that two had been considered and that might have inspired Mikoyan to use two on the MiG-25 which established a new fashion. North American Aviation did use two on the XB-70 bomber but that aircraft was of course too big to be one of the comparable aircraft to help inspire the big MiG.
Intrepid
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It is normal business to park the aircrafts on the foredeck that have just landed. If a carrier has a large foredeck, it can recover a large air group. That is the advantage of a carrier with catapults.
Have a look at the after recovery phase.
So it's wings does fold or wing sweep and fit into the elevator and into the hangar?
Yes it wings sweep back like a Tomcat and it's tail folded down.
Intrepid
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The Vigilante had a swept wing?
Remember, the US was operating that large supsersonic attack (and then surveillance) aircraft off of carriers from 1961 to the end og 1979. A long time ago.
Amazing.
But the US also had even larger aircraft.
Look up the A-3 Skywarrier, operated from 1956 through through 1991. First as a heavy attack(including nuclear weapons) aircraft, then later as recon, electronic warfae, and then as a tanker too):
@bd popeye will verify what I say, I am sure he saw them during his service.
- Crew: 3
- Length: 76 ft 4 in (23.27 m)
- : 72 ft 6 in (22.10 m)
- Height: 22 ft 9½ in (6.95 m)
- Wing area: 812 ft² (75.4 m²)
- : 39,409 lb (17,876 kg)
- Loaded weight: 70,000 lb (31,750 kg)
- : 82,000 lb (37,195 kg)
- : 2 × -P-10 , 10,500 lbf (46.7 kN) dry (12,400 lbf (55.3 kN with water injection)) each
- : 530 knots (610 mph, 982 km/h) at 10,000 ft (3,050 m)
- : 452 knots (520 mph, 837 km/h)
- : 1,826 (2,100 mi, 3,380 km)
- : 41,000 ft (12,495 m)
- : 86.2 lb/ft² (421 kg/m²)
A U.S. Navy Douglas EA-3B Skywarrior (BuNo 146452) from Fleet Reconnaissance Squadron VQ-1 Det.64 World Watchers in flight over the South China Sea. VQ-1 Det.64 was assigned to Attack Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) aboard the aircraft carrrier USS Constellation (CVA-64) for a deployment to the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean from 21 June to 23 December 1974.
Yes. You are exactly right.
And they ended up building almost 300 of them.
But they were retired d in 1974, while the Naval version was turned into recon and refueling aircraft and served on until 1991.
Altogether about 280 of the Naval A-3 aircraft in its various varieties were built.
MwRYum
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I think this is the first time CV-16 opens to civilians (and rumors had it that J-20 is going too.).
Ticket is extremely hard to get, first of all it was finally announced on Sunday night, that the 2000 tickets were to be released on Monday, so you can imagine if you're a salaryman like myself, you're basically out of luck; if you think about having someone else to get it for you, or buy it off someone, you can forget about it as well, because tickets are tied to the HKID number on the spot.
Next, this weekend's bases' open house event, the Stonecutter Island naval base will host not just the usual, but also the DDGs and FFG of the Liaoning CBG - yeah, the carrier visit is separate event.
BTW, the official announcement made it clear that no photography equipment is allowed on-board the carrier, so don't expect any pics other than those from the news services' .
Lastly, by my silence up to now you can tell that I've no luck on either, that mean this weekend, one sad kekistani will pray to Kek to seek solace...
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