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- From: st1ec@rosie.uh.edu (Tse, Oliver)
- Subject: Re: Boats and float planes
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 06:15:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug26.213021.1175@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, bs464@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Duncan R. McCoy) writes...
- >
- >Oliver - As an old carrier sailor (USS Bon Homme Richard, CVA-31, 1966/67),
- >it sounds to me like someone is pulling your chain. To launch and retrieve
- >model airplanes would require a L A R G E model carrier. We're talking
- >long and wide and we're talking lots of water. Mooring fees. Master's
- >rating for the captain. In order to achieve the utmost in realism, you're
- >going to need an operating steam catapult. And a landing signals officer
- >and LSO board. Mid-air tanking. Alpha strikes.
- >
- >All of this may be practical from a financial or technical standpoint, but
- >what is your wife going to say when you go out flying on Saturday and don't
- >come back for 9-10 months.
- >
- >
- >--
- >Duncan R. McCoy
- >Boulder City, NV
- >bs464@cleveland.freenet.edu
- >---------------------------
-
- Well, the R/C airplane(singular) could land on the large model carrier. Now,
- I didn't say the carrier would be the same scale as the airplane. That Dun-
- can would be a different matter entirely! Anyways, I checked with the folks
- at Exact Miniatures and they confirmed that SuperShips used to sell a "giant"
- carrier capable of landing a single small R/C airplane on it. By the way,
- they also mentioned that SuperShips still exists, but they only sell one
- ship class: a Fletcher destroyer.
-
- By the way, I'm still looking for the address to SuperShips. Anybody know
- their new address? Thanks for the comments Duncan, they are greatly appre-
- ciated.
-
- Oliver
- st1ec@rosie.uh.edu
-
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