Archibald: Getting a Sea Vixen off or on Hermes (or, for that matter, Ark or Eagle) without cats and traps wouldn't be tricky, it would be impossible - at any weight.
Just because a Gannet occasionally flew 'off' at minimum weights and bingo fuel to a nearby shore establishment doesn't make any of this remotely viable. And the notion of re - fitting either cats OR traps (on Bulwark, of all things!) in anything less than months or, more realistically in this scenario when none remain, years, is bed - wetting fantasy.
Oh, and G - CVIX has worn the entirely more appropriate scheme of an 899 NAS FAW.2 since 2008 -09, rather than the god awful Red Bull scheme.
Regards,
Frank
Just because a Gannet occasionally flew 'off' at minimum weights and bingo fuel to a nearby shore establishment doesn't make any of this remotely viable. And the notion of re - fitting either cats OR traps (on Bulwark, of all things!) in anything less than months or, more realistically in this scenario when none remain, years, is bed - wetting fantasy.
Oh, and G - CVIX has worn the entirely more appropriate scheme of an 899 NAS FAW.2 since 2008 -09, rather than the god awful Red Bull scheme.
Regards,
Frank
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