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Might even say it's real bitchin! I had not seen this vid before. Watch those 25's leap into the air with the Carl Vinson hauling ass into the wind!

 

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Guest Dekenba
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Those B-25s take off in a ridiculously short distance! Amazing. Like watching a Lysander or a Storch, they just lift up the wheels & they're up.

 

I'd love to see them landing on the carrier, but that's a risk too far.

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5 minutes ago, HubertB said:

Great video ! Now, where are the Zeros :) ?
 

Hubert

 

If you look carefully, you can see a couple floating in the Pacific.

 

Historical accuracy to a tee.

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8 minutes ago, HubertB said:

Great video ! Now, where are the Zeros :) ?
 

Hubert

 

Coming in from the west.

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3 minutes ago, Ryan said:

Coming in from the west.

At zero feet, doing approximately 3 knots.

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Great video, thanks for sharing!  For the curious, Carl Vincent is 200 feet or so longer than the Lexington.

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5 hours ago, GazzaS said:

Great video, thanks for sharing!  For the curious, Carl Vincent is 200 feet or so longer than the Lexington.

True that, but those 25's needed very little of it!

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6 hours ago, smitty44 said:

True that, but those 25's needed very little of it!

I think that might change with a full fuel load (plus auxiliary tank), and a bellyful of 500 pounders.

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2 hours ago, GazzaS said:

I think that might change with a full fuel load (plus auxiliary tank), and a bellyful of 500 pounders.

That's OK, they can catapult them off with full bomb loads & fuel.

 

Although I'm not confident in which order the bits of B-25 would take to the air, or maybe watch as the nosewheel makes its way down the carrier, unhindered by being attached to an actual airframe.

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28 minutes ago, Bomber_County said:

Stunning Smitty, when did this happen? Not sure if the health and safety mafia would allow this now!...........

It was to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the end of the war, so 95.

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This is breathtaking!

Those elegant old birds taking off took me  into a whole other world for a while 

Thank you for posting this.

now - how the f**k did they get them in board in the first place? I’m guessing cranes?  Those old birds are too valuable to have risked an actual landing...?

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