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From: mamba@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Paul A Deisinger)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Stealing Fighters
Summary: From a Carrier
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Date: 4 Nov 89 04:11:26 GMT
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From: mamba@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Paul A Deisinger)

In article <11030@cbnews.ATT.COM> rshu@ads.com (Richard Shu) writes:
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>From: rshu@ads.com (Richard Shu)
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>In article <10798@cbnews.ATT.COM> random@cbnewse.ATT.COM (Random @ rebmA) writes:>yyy
>>It doesn't seem that dificult from a ground based airfield. 
>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Anybody with carrier experience want to comment on how easy
>it would be to steal a plane?  Of course, one problem you
>run into is you better be close to shore when you do it
>cuz otherwise you're guaranteed to be facing some pretty
>PO'ed people when you land.
>
>Rich

No chance.

Ignoring all the "small" problems such as how you are going to get flight gear,
a plane that is ready to go, etc.  There is one major problem: The catapault.

When a plane is ready to be launched the gound crew has to determine the 
weight of the plane.  Then this weight is written onto a hand board and shown
to the person who sets the catapault.  

Catapaults are very tricky things.  The weight set has to be very close to
correct, there is not much margin for error.

The crew on an aircraft carrier is like one single organism.  It would be plain
to somone that somthing was wrong.  You'd have to pull a "Firefox" trick.

And you can't walk up on a carrier and say you were sent to ferry an F-18
to Jersey....

Paul Deisinger.

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