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Luig
Posted: Feb 2 2015, 05:52 PM
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A4G Maintainer 'Dutchy' Brauer tells the story of cross decking with a USN carrier early on and an incident with their bridle catcher:

http://a4skyhawk.org/content/journal-204-winter-2014 (free pdf 8.3Mb)

Cross deck 1969 Skyhawk Association Journal Vol 20-4
Ray “Dutchy” Brauer, RAN | Winter 2014/15
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"...A few days earlier a U.S. Sea King helicopter had lobbed onto Melbourne’s fight deck, loaded the selected group of maintainers and equipment and delivered us in a few short minutes to the Kearsarge. Kearsarge was an older ship whose flight deck was timber and the catapults were rather more sluggish hydraulic units compared to Melbourne’s steam unit. As the first RAN Skyhawk catapulted from Kearsarge, a selection of various pieces of debris went tumbling down the flight deck with it. These foreign objects included a selection of buddy store scupper drains and covers, including miscellaneous hardware which had been torn from it by the voluminous bundle of webbing belts which were used to prevent the catapult strop from leaving the ship. We were quite surprised that this catapult strop retention arrangement did not compare at all well with the vastly superior design and lower profile of the system on Melbourne. While an A-4 without the buddy store would have had no issue with the launch, this event effectively sabotaged our joint exercise...."

http://a4skyhawk.org/content/journal-204-winter-2014

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