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It is one thing to be able to fly and honour now transferred to Ark, of a carrier, to land an aeroplane on a grassy Royal. aerodrome, and it is quite another
The flying-deck-is of metal with a mechanics can te thing to land one on the "deck of an aircraft-carrier. Pilots who are quite non-skid surface, and slopes up competent in the air and on the slightly from bow to stern. Three broad white lines are painted along
On my first da ground-need special instruction, and
its length to guide the pilots. From # practice before they can land on
each doing eight deck with confidence, and one of H.M. the extreme bow of the deck a small pilots finishing
The mac aircraft-carriers has to be told off for jet of white smoke is always pour- this training work. At present the ing forth, and this must be kept ings.
central Fairey Swordfis task is being undertaken by the blowing exactly down the Courageous in the Firth of Forth, line, so that the aeroplane always T. S. R. machin
and be used for and recently I was privileged to takes off and lands directly into the carry a torpedo,
a wind. It is necessary to have
has a very stu spend a few days in her to see how
wind of about 30 knots blowing the work is done.
along the flying-deck, especially when (and it needs t wheel brakes. A under training.
ed underneath th fuselage to eng wires. Of cou
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of all superfluous light.
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engine it did not the full length o off; in fact it after a run of al As soon as he bows the pilot 1 climbed slightly,
to behind the g proached the decl
Getting aboard a busy warship is the pilots are not quite so simple as stepping While en- aboard a liner in dock. gaged on this training work the Courageous does not come above the Forth Bridge, but moors each night somewhere in the firth. She has two attendants: a destroyer, which always shadows her when fly- ing is going on, and a drifter, which keeps open the communication be- tween the carrier and Rosyth dock- yard; delivering mails, and so on. I 'Courageous cannot steam 30 knots, was instructed on arrival at Rosyth so a certain amount of help from a to report to the drifter Halo, but I wind of nature is necessary. found she could not leave dock owing the morning when I went on board flag was flown fr to boiler repairs. Presently the the conditions were ideal, and the destroyer Scimitar came into dock carrier could steam slowly. and tied up after dark, and I spent not only saved fuel and wear and Next morn- tear of engines but it also gave more my first night in her. ing: when I woke the Scimitar was time for flying while we were mov- When we turned steaming down the firth, with the 'ing up wind,
I down wind flying had to cease. sunshine dancing on the water. had just finished breakfast when we reached Courageous, towering to in immense height above us, and I went on board.
On
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'him leave to lùnd on the port sid coloured discs to the right height arrester wires ha the deck by meş dards. These at each end to p pilot would fly i The pilota who were being trained stall his Sword In mo were an interesting lot. of men. Most height. of them. were officers of the "A" under the tail c branch of the Royal Navy who have but if it missed After seeing my cabin and en- been given short-service commissions three more.
They wear naval few yards' and) trusting my suitcase to a Marine for seven years.
with a strong Liverpool accent I was uniform, but are only employed on machine dead. guided up to the flying-deck. When flying duties and cannot do the work party of sailon one stands on it it seems an immense of officers of the executive branch. sides and seized In fact expanse, but I have looked down on Most of these "A" officers had trans- plane. carriers from several thousand feet ferred from the R. A. F. The other bles were over above them, and then they look like trainees were rating pilots. All were engaged a wire tiny little water-beetles. This is quite competent in the-air, and they a pilot delayed ? especially true of Furious, which has had practised landings on a "dummy missed all the "flush" flying-deck, with the deck" marked out on an aerodorme. opened up his en That d funnels lying horizontally below it They congregated at "Donibristle again, and the smoke issuing from the aerodrome in Fife, and came out in Courageous, for stern. Courageous, her sister-ship batches to Courageous. Two squad- made. Glorious, and the new Ark Royal all rons of the Fleet Air Arm were al- have superstructures on the star- ternately in charge of the instruc- board side, with the bridge and tion, but all flying on the carrier came on boardy various offices, built round the fun- is under the control of a wing com- were broken in When the flights were mad nel. In the superstructure (or mander of the R. A. F. island) of Courageous there is an Fleet Air Arm is completely handed control Moth apartment known as the King's Hut, over to the Admiralty this position hook for brakes high up to give a good view and pro- will be filled by a naval officer, pre- with the new tected by glass windows. It was sumably a commander, which is the first landing, an built for King George V when he equivalent rank. Already there are make two landi The.I visited this ship then the flagship very few of the grey-bluc R. A. F. vision. of the Rear Admiral (Carriers), an uniforms to be seen in the wardroom run far agains
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