Re: More Fighter questions

At 10:14 PM 7/8/99 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 7/8/99 5:59:20 PM Central Daylight Time, 
>john_t_leary@pronetusa.net writes:
>
><< 
> However, the problem is one of divergent views;
> one group thinks of packing cases with fighters
> inside and the other thinks of fighters in an
> area off the main hanger deck/bay.   The fighters
> in the 'storage area' are fully flightworthy and
> only need to be armed and positioned for launch.
>  >>
>
>Generaly speaking a carrier does not have replacement aircraft aboard -
they 
>want the space taken up with fighters they can launch NOW. A fighter in
the 
>cargo hold is one crated for cargo storage, not flight operations, ask
a 
>Carrier crewman alive today.

And that crated fighter is better off (except for a very small few) on a
tender that doesn't go into battle.  It can't fight... and if you can't
fight, you don't go into battle.
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