Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!herald.usask.ca!alberta!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!cornell!llenroc!batcomputer!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Carrier Aircraft Message-ID: <1991Mar14.041221.28822@cbnews.att.com> Date: 14 Mar 91 04:12:21 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (william.b.thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 31 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Mary Shafer John Hall (john@ssd.Kodak.Com) writes: >In article <1991Mar8.021800.7056@cbnews.att.com> jeff@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (JEFF NANIS ) writes: >| There have been a number of threads concerning the ease with which >|land-based aircraft can operate off of carriers. The following is a letter from >|the back of AW&ST (March 4, 1991) which gives the best explanation I have seen: >| >| "Converting an advanced tactical fighter candidate into a carrier-based A-12 replacement is more complex than suggested... > ... > >But certainly possible. The land-based BAE Hawk has recently been >modified to be a carrier-based trainer for the USN. Not exactly. That is, no existing BAE Hawks were modified from ground-based to carrier-based aircraft. Rather, the McDonnell T-45 was developed from the BAE Hawk. The T-45 is a carrier-based trainer for the US Navy. No T-45s were ever BAE Hawks. -- Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all"--Unknown US fighter pilot