That's a LOT of T-45's on deck- that means a LOT of student pilots... Those poor AB's up on the roof who have to try and shepherd them around- from what I understand it's already like herding cats...

Only problem being, you'd have to have pretty much every bird normally on deck pulled in to the hangar bay- which is impossible, as a full airwing would never fit below decks- or you'd have to have a completely empty deck anyway. And at that point, you might as well have the ship pull into a port and load whatever cargo conventionally by crane, or just by traditional UNREP. Particularly because whatever kind of emergency would require landing 22K- 30K of spare parts/ supplies/ etc in one fell swoop would be pretty darn severe and probably better accomplished by one of the above methods anyway.

Cats are like a close order drill team compared to SNAs.

Cheers!

Rick...

Long live the Tomcat- we always could tell when we were launching or recovering one of those beasts.

Hear hear!


Just curious, what gave away the tomcat ops, were they that much louder than the A6?

Lol, who is going to try and land the Shuttle on an Aircraft Carrier.


Wheels