Holbeach

Record of my first Carrier trap with the T45.. Although I posted on the 1st page, I'd forgotten about this mod until this morning. I didn't realise how advanced it was. Downloaded v 1.2. Here is my second attempt at a landing on a Carrier. 1st attempt, the hook bounced the wires, but the 2nd attempt worked. I spent a lot of time in the Hawk. This is far better than I expected.. Edit: I found out that the parking brake is on by default, so a key needs to be assigned. This increased the T/O speed with full tanks to 123kt. ..

Yes this problem still exists. SW quadrant, wires don't work. This morning I set 1 Carrier and 1 F4u. Marianas WWII. Every course from 181 to 269 = no wires. All other quadrants OK. You don't need to fly it. Just roll fwd. from the spawn point with the hook down. There are 2 wires to catch, or not as the case may be. ''

In 1951, the worlds first Angled Flight Deck trials were undertaken, seen here on HMS Triumph, viewed from a Blackburn GR 17/45. Represented here by Ex. HMS Venerable.. ..

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As gulredrel says, it's the Argentine carrier, ex HMS Venerable, part of the 1942 Light Carrier class. (Collossus I've been almost exclusively on daily Carrier practice, since the Corsair came out, so hopefully I'm half decent at it, but stalling on the final part of the turn is the most common failure. It's good practice for when the Pacific pack comes out, hopefully in my lifetime. No working Cat, but you can still get offwith a couple of bombs and full tanks. ..

HMS Collossus, (straight deck) and Arromanches, (angled deck), both operated Corsairs. I found that Essex style approaches weren't working for me so a slightly different style of curve, maintaining altitude so I could keep visual on the angle, cracked it. overshoot the centre line, maintain alt. Keep speed up AOA low for a good view of the deck. ..

Afterthought. Maybe B/W. ..

More bytes for screenshots. Screenshots take more space than of old. 200mb is measly by todays standards. So it's nearly Christmas. Let's be more generous to I our creative talents. ..

HMS Indefatigable and Eric Winkle Brown pilot. DH Mosquito. Keep to the left of centre, to avoid island, said Eric. History has been made. ..

Here are some zero wind landings and T/O tracks from different directions. ..F4U pagan land 3 .trkF4U pagan land 4 .trkF4U pagan land 5 .trk

Changing from the Corsair to the Mosquito made my teats much harder for this tricky landing, but I found it very satisfying as I eventually got the hang of them right. ..

Nice one. I can't pass up the opportunity to teat my skills. ..

Recreating the 8 deg. Angled Flight Deck trials on USS Midway in 1952 Lines painted on deck and T/G only, to prove concept. ..

In 1951, the 13350 ton Colossus Class Light Carrier, HMS Triumph, conducted the first Angled Fight Deck trials. Eric "Winkle" Brown was the test pilot, performing about 80 T & G, using white lines at an 8 deg angle painted on the deck.. Here we can replicate this with the former HMS Venerable, (with some imagination). The prime reason for the angled deck was to prevent the type of accidents seen in the previous screenie by Pappy2. If you miss the wires you just go round. First attempt. I was suprised when the wires actually worked. The idea was offered to the USN who reluctantly tried the idea of painting the lines on the 45000 ton USS Midway. It was such a success that the Essex class carrier, USS Antietam, was converted with an angled deck in 1952 and was the first carrier to have a true angled deck. . ..

I created my own mission from scratch. Only tank 2 & 3 didn't render. ..