Catapult Launch At Dawn

[Willy]

I've been working on an around the world flight using carrier aircraft and only landing and taking off from aircraft carriers. I've got a decent collection of carriers set up all over the world, mostly old straight decks but with a few modern ones as well. I started this at Pensacola Florida and have worked my way to Europe, down through the Middle Eas and on across India to Thailand. Late last night I did a dawn take off from a CVL off of Phuket and flew on to another CVL off of Singapore in the Aeroplane Heaven Seafire III. Anyway, I took a bunch of screenshots of this leg and hope yall enjoy them.

The darn attachment function won't let me put them in order and is constantly scrambling them up. The first one is right, but the other are in reverse order.

Continued.....

 

[Willy]

Okay, the pics are in proper order this time.

On my initial approach, I got down to short final just off the deck and decided that I didn't like the way it looked so I "took the wave off" and went around for another try. This time I caught the wire and parked. Off to the Chief's Mess for coffee and donuts.

I forgot to mention earlier that the CVL is the one from the MAAM Turkey pack and comes with the files to set it up in various locations around the world. And I did (along with Paul "Put Put" Clawson's Langley CV-1, Saratoga CV-3 and I repainted Saratoga to Lexington CV-2 and put it all over the globe too)