Big Charlie (HMS PoW) Breaks Down

[Yokel]

Bob is correct.

Context is everything. That reference is highly likely to refer to operations in the Adriatic in very limited "boxes", where repositioning in designated time slots was key. Going to max chat when you've already got 25 kts of wind down the deck is likely to result in people being unable to stand up and hence unable to operate.

True, but was it windy all the time out there?

The various books always referred to the ship speeding up to launch and someone doing ship speed/wind speed/aircraft mass/deck run calculations, but did the CVS have to be a a certain speed for vertical landing? I understand that when jet borne no lift of generated by the wings, yet a vertical landing on a ship moving forward was not quite the same as a vertical landing ashore.

The WAFUs on PPRuNe have often pointed out that carrier operations were not simply a matter for the pilot (and deck crew) and squadron maintainers, but also relied on the Bridge, Flyco, SCC, MCO, Operations Room, hangar, and various operators and maintainers.

The SHOL for the SHAR was tiny (R10-20, 15-25 wind over deck) IIRC.

Interesting - was that a function of the aircraft and its controls or of the ship and deck movement? Many of the anti carrier brigade have criticised the QEC as too large, yet cannot grasp that larger ships are thrown about less and are more stable.

I wonder had the 'through deck cruiser' been intended to carry fixed wing aircraft from the start, would it have resulted in a larger ship?

 

[Yokel]

Still no apology from the Daily Mail regarding their shoddy reporting and use of terms such 'to be scrapped' or stripped for parts, but it does appear that the Mail has sent a reporter to HMS Prince of Wales:



You can tell the day of the week by the menu. If it's Friday, it's fish and chips for lunch, Saturday is steak night but woe betide anyone who tries to do away with the British sailor's Sunday roast...

Shame about the comments by dribbling retards - but it is the Mail.

 

[cernunnos]

You can tell the day of the week by the menu. If it's Friday, it's fish and chips for lunch, Saturday is steak night but woe betide anyone who tries to do away with the British sailor's Sunday roast...

The German navies, merchant and Bundesmarine, have a rigid institution known as "Seemanssonntag" (Seamans Sunday) every Thursday.
Basically they get an extra slap up "Sonntagsbraten" Sunday dinner and beer every week. The Tradition is old first mentioned in 1727 in the Hamburg Articles for seamen.

I wonder if this is why they got cold feet on the second day of the Battle of Jutland 01 Jun 1916, it was a Thursday.