Official Derailed thread... Wait, what?

No one says bad stuff about US Marines on this planet.

Also, I don't know if US Air Forces have them but the actual hook is not a complicated piece of technology and iirc some planes of USAF do have hooks.

Also, CIA has landed U2's on carriers (is this an argument for or against, I can't tell), but finnish F-18's too have the tailhooks that allow landing on carriers even if our carriers can't house all of our hornets.

But I don't think it was about USAF not being able to land on carriers or lacking the training. I think what they meant was that calling them "marines" would be hardly an insult methinks. You know, in a way Navy and Marines are same water dwelling species whereas air forces are have their bases on land.

 

I know SVOTL technique!


Who needs a frickin runway?

 

well technically crashing is still landing. just not with the plane intact and undamaged.

 

Check the pic, it's hardly even scratched! And those wooden propellers ain't expensive.

 

Does that answer your question.

 

Going to go with "if the plane is on the ground and the pilot is still alive it is a soft landing".

 

Every landing you walk away alive is a good landing.

 

Any landing where the lady lands on my face is an excellent landing!

 

marines flying does not equal carrier based squadron. though I suppose if they couldn't fly from california to hawaii to wherever they probably did land on a carrier (or something) to get there.

 

Corsair is a carrier based plane. Marines used them for close air support on the pacific front, and in arial combat.

 

L2 Corsair. The first ones were not carrier based. They were land based.

Wasn't till the british got it November 1943 and they modified it that it became carrier operational. though somewhere it does mention marines flying corsairs off carriers but I don't think they were actually based (serving) on the carrier it was only till they could in range of whatever airfield they were going to be stationed at. I'm asking when did marine squadrons start serving on carriers as a part of it's air wing? not just transport.

which I knew they were land based without having to look it up. I did have to look up the specifics. forgot about the whys. I knew the marines were flying the corsair long before the navy.

huh. just read something else on the F4U-1A provided to marines.

 

For sake of derailment

 

corsairs sent to the marines were ground based. Marines stationed on a carrier used the navy version which was carrier capable.

 

White/Gold or Blue/Black?

 

Looking at it makes my eyes hurt.

Yeah I know the trick was also all over the news. Not actually a trick just your brain overcompensating what your eyes are seeing which cause the colors to switch from the actual blue and black to white and gold. Has something to do with how the picture was taken.

 

Also, escort carriers - when they were in use - were used a lot as 'taxi' to take planes to where they were needed, besides the other actual operations.

Also, marines, the ones that don't fly planes, practice amphibious landings.

Infantry carry rifles. Marines are infantry. And yea, since Marines are not 'just' marines but a separate service branch they want to have some of their own air power. And it can only support their landings properly if some of it is carrier based.

Marines are possibly the only force in the world that has 300m target practice as standard part of all the ground troops training.

A lot of people see this in various color. There are actually a lot of factors beyond eyes and brain, such as monitor color, monitor specularity and possible reflections, the color of the room's light one is in etc.