PLAN Aircraft Carrier programme...(Closed)
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Ouch. Sorry to hear it. Lots of good stuff there.
Does SD not do a backup occasionally?
Whew, I did not realize it but I posted a LOT on that thread over the last couple of years. That one thread cost me about 300 posts!
Anyhow, glad you got the new one going. I am sure we will catch up and be back up to speed pronto.
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Big and complex like a catapult. Anyway, without the turn table, parking space would have to be devoted to maneuvering space and would reduce the amount of planes that can be carried.
Here is an interior shot of Kuznetsov's hangar, showing the turn table.
Tags: China; Liaoning; Kuznetsov; Russian; aircraft carrier; hangar; turn table;
Yes, and catapults, for the purposes of putting larger, heavier and more diverse aircraft into the air are required, and there are four of them, so any one does not have that great an impact. Such a turntable is not absolutely necessary, though I admit it does make the maneuvering job easier entering the hanger.
OUSTANDING pic. And there it is.Here is an interior shot of Kuznetsov's hangar, showing the turn table.
Tags: China; Liaoning; Kuznetsov; Russian; aircraft carrier; hangar; turn table;
Thanks. Clearly a feature passed right along with the carrier itself.
MwRYum
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Big and complex like a catapult. Anyway, without the turn table, parking space would have to be devoted to maneuvering space and would reduce the amount of planes that can be carried.
Here is an interior shot of Kuznetsov's hangar, showing the turn table.
Tags: China; Liaoning; Kuznetsov; Russian; aircraft carrier; hangar; turn table;
Yeah, not as brightly marked but nonetheless. The aircraft elevators on Liaoning is somewhat smaller than those on the Nimitz class, as well as the hanger space, thus there's not that many room to do n-pointed turn inside the hanger, turntable will be the faster recourse, though that also mean some more stuff to vulnerable to malfunction.
So, it there only one, or one for each elevator. I would suspect that each elevator had one.
MwRYum
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The other pic I saw somewhere else is the forward elevator position and it got its own turntable there, that means a turntabe at each elevator position, and it makes perfect sense too.
Here's another thing that should be added back to this thread with respect to the Liaoning and the PLAN's aircraft carrier and naval aviation aspirations.
This facility is a testament to the PLANs achievements and commitment in regards to naval aviation and its future in the PRC:
This facility is a testament to the PLANs achievements and commitment in regards to naval aviation and its future in the PRC:
Last in, first out. An absolute necessity in the way those are parked.
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