FCEng
Registered: 12/14/06
Posts: 51
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Now this is a unique idea. Essentially a flying aircraft carrier. I especially like the description of how maintainers would work in pressurized suits on the hangar decks. If it ever crashed, there would be a lot of wreckage to look for!
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Searchmaster
Registered: 12/10/06
Posts: 83
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Seeing as how a single blown tire on takeoff or inflight fire could wipe out an entire fighter wing including its support personnel in a fireball visible three states away, I can understand why this idea died on the vine. The enormous amount of fuel you'd need to haul around 'a score' of fighters(also full of fuel) earns this plane the nickname of 'Petroleum Overcast'. |
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ChrisBrame
Registered: 12/20/06
Posts: 46
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Petroleum Overcast? If anything went wrong, more like Aluminum Holocaust. No wonder Grover Loening had been out of the loop for a while...  |
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Dennis
Registered: 12/01/06
Posts: 530
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ghcoe
Registered: 08/17/09
Posts: 26
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Guess they did not learn with the USS Akron and her sister ship USS Macon. |
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