USS Lexington Carrier

And a nice DC-3 lay over the deck... 😉

Thanks for this RadarMan. 👍

I love my carriers - but this one was a bit of a disappointment... mine came without that sleek DC-3 😳

Also , I'm a bit curious in regards to this comment by the author : "It has a hardened deck for take-offs and landings..."

Since we're flying in a vitual world (this is according to my therapist anyway), why would it be important to have a hardened deck???

If indeed the impact of a recovery (I tend to manage some really weird ones) can be felt, should I get a stronger computer desk?

Tailhook wrote:

Also , I'm a bit curious in regards to this comment by the author : "It has a hardened deck for take-offs and landings..."

Since we're flying in a vitual world (this is according to my therapist anyway), why would it be important to have a hardened deck???

Not all carriers have that feature, this one was made so you could land and take off from it.
Many others are not for "use".

I've taken off from it (not the DC-3) but haven't tried landing on it yet.

RadarMan wrote:

Not all carriers have that feature, this one was made so you could land and take off from it.
Many others are not for "use".

I've taken off from it (not the DC-3) but haven't tried landing on it yet.

This makes sense, thanks Radarman (I'm gonna cancel the appointment I made with my shrink).

I really expected you to take off using your DC-3 - just to see whether you could make it past the tower with that wingspan... 😀

I tried once and hit the tower, I'll try it again tomorrow.
I may pass it but there isn't enough runway for that aircraft and I haven't studied the catapult (and probably won't) yet.
I used a small STOL aircraft to see if the deck was hard, that took off.

I just tried the default DC-3... NO way Next I took my favorite A6M2 Zero - didn't even bother to taxi to the CAT - full flaps, full throttle aaand release brakes... the rudder, of course the rudder becomes your best friend - I was sailing.
Managed to land too on my first attempt, sort of, missed the trap and ended up in the drink practice, practice, practice...

I ve tried too with my B.Baron...The tower is also hard and the water is frozen... 😉 Must keep on trying and learn swimming... 😉

Since they were able to get loaded B-25's off the Hornet you should have enough runway to get the C-47 off.

From what I can remember, and with each passing year that gets harder, from "Thirty Seconds over Tokyo" the ran up to full power then released brakes and dropped flaps to full thus causing the plan to leap off the deck.

ah but the B25s weren't 'loaded' properly they had a lot of crap stripped out (all armour, guns, ammo, seats etc etc)

🙂

i downloaded the us stern and it in senery libery now as number 1 but still dont show up at all any ideas?

got it working but no calapolt how do i get the thing to work

Greekman72 wrote:

I ve tried too with my B.Baron...The tower is also hard and the water is frozen... 😉 Must keep on trying and learn swimming... 😉

Try it with your Howard 500 😀

Tailhook wrote:

Greekman72 wrote:

I ve tried too with my B.Baron...The tower is also hard and the water is frozen... 😉 Must keep on trying and learn swimming... 😉

Try it with your Howard 500 😀

Promise i will....But this taildragger is very sensitine when you use breaks in a high speed ...You can easily explore the underdeck area... 😉

Chicken... any excuse will do

Tailhook wrote:

Chicken... any excuse will do

Keep on your mind this state...I ll be back...

😉 😂

my aircraft carrier is invisible....why...its so annoying:evil: