I remember looking at slowed-down footage of early carrier landings and watching the fixed non-sprung undercart just crumbling apart from the stresses.
Japanese WW2 aviation is very underrated IMO.
Just look at the thread on the Oscar rebuilds, everyone was pretty much blown away.
Mr Wallis’s Oscar (the taxi-only example) was always well received at Wanaka
I say we should have more Japanese aircraft take to our skies …… :
Just a note though,…all the references I looked at didn’t mention the UO-1 as being carrier capable.
What was the story behind the pic you produced for the quiz?
Just interested to learn about early US Navy aviation, that’s all. 🙂
Well I was going to say UO-1 but I believe they never flew off carriers, just catapulted off battleships.
Then I was going to say VE7-SF but the pic isn’t very clear and I can’t tell if it’s a radial or inline powered aircraft.
THe VE-7SF was the first aircraft to take off from the first US carrier( Langley)
So I’ll go with the second one.
If I’m wrong then I give up !!!!! 😉
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