...how the hell is he gonna take orf again?
Showing posts with label Aircraft Carrier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aircraft Carrier. Show all posts
Saturday, 28 January 2012
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Aircraft Carrier Hotel
went under cover to China to smuggle out this special report for you, dear reader.
Infiltrating the People's Army (left) she located the whereabouts of the missing Russian carrier "The Kiev."
After capturing these daring covert snaps and the informative film below, she rather dramatically escaped off the bugger's own deck in a stolen Chinese Mig, which she brought back for us to dissect!
What a girl! And a damn fine Royal Air Farce Officer to boot.
The 36,000 ton Kiev, built in 1972, carried 31 aircraft, usually a mix of 12 fighters 19 helicopters, in it's USSR Navy heyday.
She was believed to have been lost in a secretive "Naval incident" with an unnamed U.S. nuke sub in 1996.
I suspected the "unofficial official" explanation sounded like some fanciful imaginings from an excellent Patrick Robinson novel at the time, having had no personal role in the ship's alleged demise.
It now transpires, from Lt Lei's report, the shocking truth is that it was sold by it's mutinous crew to a passing Chinese ( on a junk, perhaps?) scrap metal merchant!
It's now based in the secretive Chinese port of Tianjin, where our inscrutable foes train masses of spies to become more westernised under the guise of "tourists."
Why, m'dear Lt Lei even had to degrade herself in this saucy bunny outfit in order to film the short movie below.
Most fortunatley, the clever lass managed to smuggle the outfit out along with the film....
Monday, 1 December 2008
Gotcha!
An S-3A Viking aircraft with landing gear problems, lands safely on the USS Abraham Lincoln with the help of the crash barricade.
First photo of Amazing US Navy Midget Stealth Bomber
Ok. Actually it's the catapult officer in the catapult control pod of USS George Washington as a F/A-18C Hornet prepares to launch...
Sunday, 20 April 2008
Saturday, 19 April 2008
Thursday, 17 April 2008
Ice Aircraft Carrier
Artwork by Dominic Harman from a mad British WW2 concept of massive Ice aircraft carriers.
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
So how we gonna get to take off?
If this was a real landing, imagine the trouble they'd have trying to get this bloody great thing up to take off speed from a carrier...
Imagine the size of catapult they'd need...
Sunday, 13 April 2008
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Aircraft overboard!
A faulty cat launch aboard the U.S.S. Shangri La plunges a Crusader F8 into the sea.
Thankfully, the pilot escaped with just a cut elbow!
Thankfully, the pilot escaped with just a cut elbow!
Crash landing!
These very dramatic pictures were taken by Cdr "Shorty" Hamilton RN, from the island deck of HMS VICTORIOUS in 1961.
HMS VICTORIOUS
HMS VICTORIOUS
Thursday, 13 March 2008
Grumman F6F Hellcat
USS Yorktown
The Grumman F6F Hellcat was the most successful fighter in naval history, destroying 5,171 enemy aircraft in WW2 with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps.
12,275 were built between 1942-1945 and the U.S. Navy finally retired it's sharp claws in 1954
Tuesday, 4 March 2008
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