1945 floating runway - GIF

1945 floating runway.

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More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_and_Clover

Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...454#post122490
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...156#post126097
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...444#post146863
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...868#post152556
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...7146#post85129

Couldn't imagine any other plane than a stringbag (Fairey Swordfish) being slow enough to land on it, though it appears to have had rocket assistance to get off again. The stringbag was famous for being so slow that AA gunners often missed in front, enabling the crews to press home torpedo attacks such as on the Bismarck.

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Originally Posted by NeiljohnUK

Couldn't imagine any other plane than a stringbag (Fairey Swordfish) being slow enough to land on it, though it appears to have had rocket assistance to get off again. The stringbag was famous for being so slow that AA gunners often missed in front, enabling the crews to press home torpedo attacks such as on the Bismarck.

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Bismarck who was sunk by them 80 years ago, yesterday.

Strictly she wasn't, according to my son who is in the RN (and the official war record), they disabled her allowing surface ships to catch up and sink her.