Re: F-86s & Emergency Carrier Landings

["Love Shack" <Home@DanSources.com>]

Bob Hoover made some references in his book as a Test Pilot on th FJ5.
The Carrier Deck Runway simulating a carrier deck began with Doolittle
and the B25's.

Since that time all aircraft experimented taking off from the carriers.
Most noteably P40's in Africa, and P51's in the Pacific.

I suspect the performance many US Fighers were measured
on the Fixed Carrier Runway Deck.

NOW Landings required a dedicated structurally (Navy like) prepared AC.
My suggestion would be to locate a FJ1-5 Fury book.
OR a book about Test Pilots

Regarding your friend I believe it.
The USAF and Navy always seemed to have a few of each others AC.
The Phantom being the most sucessful multirole Fighter Bomber we have ever
had.

Dan Fahey




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John C Cheek" <johncheek1@juno.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu>
Cc: <KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: F-86s & Emergency Carrier Landings


> 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
>