Aviation Geeks unite?! Anybody else care about planes here?
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Said it before, will say it again: I really miss airships/
This is aviation-related in a roundabout way so please bear with me...
Sometimes people in the US say "send in a carrier" as if that's an answer to any overseas trouble. And a carrier can deliver a hard blow, quickly. Keeping up anything over a sustained period, though, that's a different story.
Below is an underway replenishment of USS Intrepid in 1968, note the crates of general purpose bombs. During Rolling Thunder, three carriers carried out flight operations 12 hours a day for three days. Then, in rotation, they pulled off the line for a day. But it wasn't a day off: They had to take on 450 tons of ordnance and 10,000 barrels of jet fuel. Every fourth day for nine months! That was the kind of supply train the US could employ during the Cold War.
Sometimes people in the US say "send in a carrier" as if that's an answer to any overseas trouble. And a carrier can deliver a hard blow, quickly. Keeping up anything over a sustained period, though, that's a different story.
Below is an underway replenishment of USS Intrepid in 1968, note the crates of general purpose bombs. During Rolling Thunder, three carriers carried out flight operations 12 hours a day for three days. Then, in rotation, they pulled off the line for a day. But it wasn't a day off: They had to take on 450 tons of ordnance and 10,000 barrels of jet fuel. Every fourth day for nine months! That was the kind of supply train the US could employ during the Cold War.
"Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics."
- Gen. Robert H. Barrow, USMC (Commandant of the Marine Corps) noted in 1980
"Bitter experience in war has taught the maxim that the art of war is the art of the logistically feasible."
- ADM Hyman Rickover, USN
- Gen. Robert H. Barrow, USMC (Commandant of the Marine Corps) noted in 1980
"Bitter experience in war has taught the maxim that the art of war is the art of the logistically feasible."
- ADM Hyman Rickover, USN
Intrepid was a WW2 Essex class that had been designated an ASW carrier, but the needs in Vietnam caused her to be set up as a "special attack carrier" with a unique air wing: Two squadrons of A-4C's and one of A-4E's, plus detachments of F-8's, RF-8's, E-1's and EA-1's. I can't find the exact numbers carried, though.
The exact numbers varied quite often. It depended on the mission at hand.
This website supposedly has lists of the aircraft used on each of the Intrepid's three 'Nam deployments.
1966
1967
1968
Every squadron would have a standard authorized strength, though. It's the detachments I was wondering about.
Yes, thank you! I had seen that site before and couldn't find it again. So the detachments were six F-8's, five RF-8's, three EA-1's , four E-1's and three helos. Thanks again!
"You can never have too much ammunition or toilet paper." - Mysterion
True logistic success is always having a roll there when you reach for it. - Me
I don't know much about rotorcraft. I saw this sitting in someone's front lawn as i gassed up my car in western North Carolina. It was just sitting there. I didn't have a chance to get a better look at the motor or anything else. It had a tail rotor, so it's not some wierd ass autogyro, as far as I can tell.
Anyone know what it is?
Forget the brand/make but, there are quite a few lightweight mini-chopper kits out there. They've been around since the late 50's or early 60's.
I don't know much about rotorcraft. I saw this sitting in someone's front lawn as i gassed up my car in western North Carolina. It was just sitting there. I didn't have a chance to get a better look at the motor or anything else. It had a tail rotor, so it's not some wierd ass autogyro, as far as I can tell.
Anyone know what it is?
Here you go something similar..
That looks like a deathtrap, like the Mosquito helicopter pure deathtrap. But oddly both of them are cute kind of.
I'd feel far safer flying a Fokker Dr.1 or Sopwith Camel!
And both of those were viewed as dangerous for an inexperienced pilot...
And both of those were viewed as dangerous for an inexperienced pilot...
It's a bird. It's a can! It's so fake looking it must be phony!
None of the above, it's a Stipa-Caproni!
First time I seen that one but there is another aircraft that's similar in design concept. was called the bee-gee or something. Pictures I've seen had it in a red & white paint scheme.
