When Men were Men...

[Lobster]

My first thought on seeing the header was "....And sheep were..."

thought the same thing

 

[Immy]

Kind of off topic, but did WW2 carriers have catapults?

 

[OUSOONER]

The British were using it I think...and they were all hydraulic catapults....but I don't know how often they were used. I know Battleships and other ships sometimes carried a scout plane that most likely had to be shot off by catapult.

 

[OUSOONER]

How does "Andy Cowan" relate to this video?

He said he was in the Hellcat that slammed against the Island..and he said he "crushed" his "crew chief"...read the link provided in R.O.'s post up top about the whole Andy Cowan ordeal...

 

[Old R.O.]

Kind of off topic, but did WW2 carriers have catapults?

Yes. Hydraulic catapults.
Also, some of the first Essex class (CV-9 and up) were built with a catapult on the hangar deck

They were hardly ever used, and were taken out later.

 

[Pugs]

Yes. Hydraulic catapults.
Also, some of the first Essex class (CV-9 and up) were built with a catapult on the hangar deck

They were hardly ever used, and were taken out later.

You can catch some nice footage of hangar bay cat shots in "The Fighting Lady" it was on TCM not too long ago

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047230/

 

[Tex_Hill]

You can catch some nice footage of hangar bay cat shots in "The Fighting Lady" it was on TCM not too long ago

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047230/

Or you can download it from the Internet Archive & watch it on your PC. The film is in the public domain so there's no copyright issues.

http://www.archive.org/details/FightingLady

MPEG1 format (543MB)
http://www.archive.org/download/FightingLady/FightingLady.mpg

MPEG2 format (3.8GB)
http://www.archive.org/download/FightingLady/FightingLady.mpeg