Fotografia Naval
hace 7 años
Es el CV42, y creo que fueron de las primeras navegaciones para ir creando los procedimientos con los Harrier de los Marines en los CV
One of their experiments was to integrate the AV-8 into a conventional USN Carrier Air Wing. This happened during the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt's Mediterranean cruise in 1976.
In 1974 the Harrier made its first deployment aboard a "Gator Navy" Amphibious Assault Ship, the USS Tripoli after being tested for shipboard computability aboard the same vessel earlier. Just two years later, fourteen AV-8A Harriers from Marine Attack Squadron 231 (VMA-231) "Ace of Spades" embarked aboard the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) from 1976 to 1977 to prove the concept of integrating the short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) Harrier into catapult and barrier configured carrier's normal Air Wing operations.
Launching the Harrier off of the carrier was facilitated by a long guide line painted between the Roosevelet's bow catapults, starting amidship near the island. The Harriers would simply rocket down that line before turning their nozzles to a near vertical position, raising off the deck about mid-way down the bow catapult tracks.
Al final, supongo, que será prioritario lo que indique el SOP del CV, y podrán utilizar la tram line central, pero esa tram line central en ningún caso, creo llega hasta la posición de la free deck, ya que la guía de los AV8 acabaría más o menos a la altura de los deflectores de la CAT 1 y 2....; creo.