Dakota landing on aircraft carrier

Have you been able to find out which Dc3 it was?

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Have you been able to find out which Dc3 it was?

Of course we all know that a number of U-2s have been operated off carriers, don’t we?

you can 3 point a Dak with a stiff headwind and get it stopped in about 100m. I know it ‘cos I’ve done it.

Less worried about wind-over-deck than the structural integrity of the landing gear (esp tail wheel).

you can land one with the gear up and not damage it at all too, got to get the props perfect tho!

A DC-3 flying off a carrier I can believe, but hardly that one landed. Which carrier should it have been?

you can 3 point a Dak with a stiff headwind and get it stopped in about 100m. I know it ‘cos I’ve done it.

A DC-3 flying off a carrier I can believe, but hardly that one landed. Which carrier should it have been?

Try this link poss ex CIA aircraft

http://www.ruudleeuw.com/dc3-zslvr.htm

A225HVY

That’s me giving the thumbs up from cockpit of LVR. She was a beaut of a Dak

Video Of C-130 Landing on Forrestal http://www.airandspacemagazine.com/ASM/Web/Site/QT/HercOn.html

Video Of C-130 Taking off from Forrestal http://www.airandspacemagazine.com/ASM/Web/Site/QT/HercOff.html

Back in, I think, 1985, in the middle of the murky Med, we did an overshoot of USS Nimitz. Didn’t look to big to me, sat in the nose, when I first saw if appear out of the murk. Problem was it kept getting bigger. And bigger.

Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention we were in a Shack. You wouldn’t believe some of the comments on the radio!!

There is a story, but I can’t remember where I read it, that a B-29 returning from a raid on Japan spotted a US carrier and set up a spoof landing circuit and approach. Frantic light signals were aimed at it until a go-around was performed!

ZS-LVR (2) was built as a C-47A-DL, USAAF s/n 43-16009 (c/n 20475), and subsequently registered as N4766C, N950, N5000C and N5000E respectively, before being registered on 1 Dec 1990 as ZS-LVR.

This particular C-47 does not appear in Joe Leeker’s Air America files. However, that doesn’t necessarily exclude a CIA connection. Does anyone have more information on the former owners/operators of -LVR?

Regards,

Jan

Try this link poss ex CIA aircraft

http://www.ruudleeuw.com/dc3-zslvr.htm

A225HVY

I’ve never heard of a DC-3 landing on an aircraft carrier, but during January 1947, the US Navy used six Douglas R4Ds on Operation Highjump, an aerial mapping and survey mission to Antarctica. The six R4Ds were flown off the carrier, but all were abandoned in situ as they could not land back at the carrier, USS Philippine Sea. Several photos of these R4Ds appear in the ‘Aircraft in Profile’ booklet on the Douglas R4D series.

More also on: http://broadcast.illuminatedtech.com/display/story.cfm?bp=109&sid=8082

Regards,

Jan

Speaking of strange “air” ops from a carrier… V-2 launched from CVB-41 USS Midway:http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/carriers/cvb41.htm
more details at: http://cv41.org/cv41.html

I’ve got film footage of the actual landing on DVD, it was taken from the end of a TV programme ( Jag, I think? ). The episode had been about landing a Herc on a carrier or something similar and they tagged the actually footage on the end just to prove it could be done.

I guess I just underestimated the proper size of a carrier’s deck – they always seem crowded to hell in the films/photos! :rolleyes:

Ask and ye shall receive:

Dakota ‘Memphis Belle’

I’ve never heard of a C-130 landing on a carrier, mind you! 😮

Look, plenty of room!

Ask and ye shall receive:

Dakota ‘Memphis Belle’

I’ve never heard of a C-130 landing on a carrier, mind you! 😮

D.D.M. You must be joking? 😮 😮

Yep, been done, was also a recent doctored photo of one on the internet, but this is the real story http://www.theaviationzone.com/factsheets/c130_forrestal.asp