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An aircraft carrier can't launch 5 helicopters in less than an hour?
by Invictus0 2y ago
An aircraft carrier can't launch 5 helicopters in less than an hour?
- ceejayoz 2y agoNot if they're cramming them as close as they can go to make space. As soon as they pushed the first ones off, more landed. > Immediately, five more airborne Huey pilots took advantage of the cleared runway to land and disembark their passengers. Basically, the situation in the pic at https://www.forcesnews.com/news/uss-theodore-roosevelt-changes-homeport-and-helps-move-3000-sailors-and-their-cars https://www.forcesnews.com/news/uss-theodore-roosevelt-chang..., but with aircraft instead of cars. They were all gonna wind up scrapped or sent to the boneyard (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Navy_040204-N-3122S-004_An_aerial_image_of_the_Aerospace_Maintenance_and_Regeneration_Center_(AMARC)_located_on_the_Davis-Monthan_Air_Force_Base_in_Tucson,_Ariz.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Navy_040204-N-312...) anyways.
- dredmorbius 2y agoTo land where? It was an emergency situation. The carrier was the only safe landing zone for hundreds, if not thousands, of miles. The choppers had been flying at or above max capacity for long distance, and would have been low on fuel already. Fueling them on the flight deck would not only have taken more time but presented its own significant risk of fire particularly in the confusion and nonstandard ops environment.