The runway was painted with a contoured outline of " Graf Zeppelin " s flight deck and simulated deck landings were then conducted over an arresting cable strung width-wise across the airstrip.
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*1926 Flying a Blackburn Dart, Flight Lieutenant Gerald Boyce makes the first night deck landing in history, landing aboard the British aircraft carrier HMS Furious off the south coast of England.
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On 20 January 1949, RNAS Culdrose . 809 Squadron was the only front-line unit to use this variant; following an initial workup period, the squadron briefly transferred to for deck landing practice.
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This arrangement allowed the upper surface of the forward fuselage to slope downwards steeply from the pilot's cockpit at the wing leading edge, giving him the good forward view essential for deck landings.
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The testing involved multiple combinations of landing point and type of aircraft, with the result being that by the close of 1943 he had performed around 1, 500 deck landings on 22 different carriers.
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After a screeching flight-deck landing in a Navy plane, Bush got a tour of the carrier before addressing the United States from this ship that launched hundreds of jets on wartime missions over Iraq.
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Yaw was through differential collective which has a secondary effect of torque, an automatic mixer box ensured that total lift on the rotors remained constant during yaw maneuvers, to improve handling during deck landings.
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In 1951, a Bristol-owned Sycamore Mk . 2 was used during a series of deck landing trials performed onboard the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Army Air Corps ( AAC ), and British European Airways ( BEA ).
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In 2012 an Apache attack helicopter from the Royal Netherlands Air Force made a deck landing on board for the first time as part of an initial study into the possibilities for wider use of the helicopters.
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The fore grand staircase is depicted correctly for the most part, aside from some inaccuracies in the D and E deck landings, but in the aft grand staircase there is no clock present on the A-Deck landing.
