Re: F-86s & Emergency Carrier Landings

[John C Cheek <johncheek1@juno.com>]

What about his story of having to practice landings on a runway area
marked out to the size of a carrier deck? After becoming proficient on
the limited runway area, he claimed he was required to land on a carrier
in daylight then was shot off after dark. Is there any way to check this
out and see if the AF trained their FJ5 Fury pilots for emergency (crash)
landings on carriers and/or to ditch nearby?


On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 19:45:35 -0400 Love Shack <Home@DanSources.com>
writes:
> He may have had an expermintal USAF/Navy version FJ-5 Fury.
> This experiment was going on to a limited extent between the AF and 
> Navy.
> The FJ5 was an H version of the F86 redesigned for the Navy.
> 
> The Navy did not have a really decent fighter until the F 8 
> Crusader.
> Of course the Phantom was the best of the time. Otherwise the Navy 
> suffered
> getting the better Fighter plane until technology caught up.
> 
> DF
> 
> John C Cheek wrote:
> 
> > I recall a fellow I worked with in 1956 telling me that he flew a 
> jet
> > fighter out of an airport south of Seoul somewhere. I though he 
> said he
> > flew an F-86 and had to make a practice a landing on an aircraft 
> carrier
> > before being allowed to fly missions into North Korea. The purpose 
> of
> > course was to make an emergency landing on a carrier (or ditch 
> nearby)
> > rather than make the longer flight back to his ground base. A 
> retired Air
> > Force career man told me today that was impossible. What gives? 
> Did the
> > Air Force fly other fighters in the Korean War or was the 
> aircraft
> > landing story just bull?
> >
> >         Stay safe, buddy.
> >         J. Charles Cheek
> >         Author of "Stay Safe, Buddy"
> >         A Novel about Humor & Horror during the Korean War
> >         www.authorsden.com/jcharlescheek
> 
> 
> 


        Stay safe, buddy.
        J. Charles Cheek
        Author of "Stay Safe, Buddy"
        A Novel about Humor & Horror during the Korean War
        www.authorsden.com/jcharlescheek