Ah a quiz that, if you know the answer, you cant enter…….logical!!!

The last thing I heard was that the Meteor would possibly not display due to crewing issues.

The commentators blamd the insurance problem. In which case how did it fly in?

With regards to the covers. Yesterday we had extreme temperatures, the people who brought the aircraft in also had to FLY her home again. If I were them and faced with the same choice I would have done the same thing. The aircraft has appeared at Kemble before without covers so its not as if they were being obstructive, yesterday was a bit hotter than the norm.

Its better to be safe than sorry.

Kev

Indulge away old bean. Sorry I couldnt hang around longer, I was scared of finding something alive in the boot of Robs car.

Because there is no technical reason the RN carriers could not be adapted to do the job of recieving F-14 or launching same.

They are/were not big enough, they were barely big enough for the F-4. Now if one of you technical reasons is to cut the thing into quarters and make it wider and longer then fine. Most of us prefer to be realistic.

I agree it’s technically highly unlikely

Its more than that, its impossible.

Ooops another keyboard bites the dust.

Well the Ark uses a metal strop system on its catapaults and the F-14 uses a bar on the nosewheel leg. The two systems on the Ark are incompatable (although this cannot have been the case on US Carriers) therefore I am willing to bet Mr Johnstone-Bryden is wrong.