This 15 minute video, produced by Grumman Aerospace in the 70s, details the different requirements of Navy planes from land-based planes.
For one thing, I did not know that that once the tail hook catches, the entire fuselage flexes – think of the 1000s of landings a plane makes in its life, and the engineering that goes into this …
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This is brilliant Bill! Thanks for posting this.
Just got round to watching this. Fascinating stuff. What an interesting archive. Those nukes were always too big to pass into Portsmouth harbour and the crews were `bussed` ashore in jollyboats. Great stuff Bill.