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From: anthony@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Lee)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Angled flight decks
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Date: 17 Dec 90 04:43:03 GMT
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From: anthony@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Lee)

We in Australia get TV programs from the US at least several weeks
after they been shown in the US.  Tonight there was a program called
"48 hours", a general current affairs program (CNS).  The topic was 
the USS Kennedy.  There was one scene where this F14 was landing and 
the landing hook failed to engage and the pilot have to take off at the
other end for a second attempt.  Lucky for for him the F14's engines are
equipped with afterburners, the F14 took off again but the landing gears
got within 30 feet above the water.  What a closed call !  I think it is
time like these you really appreicate angled flight decks, imagine your
hooks failing to engage and there are a pair of fully fuelled F14s on
the other end of the runway !
--
Anthony Lee (Michaelangelo teenage mutant ninja turtle) (Time Lord Doctor) 
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