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HMS Eagle deck landings

Aircraft from carriers of the American 6th Fleet try "touch & goes" on HMS Eagle. US carriers had arrester wires the full length of their flight deck but British carriers only have a few close to the stern. The American pilots just couldn't get the hang of it and hardly any of them would have made a successful landing in an emergency.
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Euroamerican
Yes. The canopy being in an open position during landing was pretty normal for propeller and earlier years of the jet age, in regards to US Navy carrier flight operations. The easier to bail out or get a clean ejection.

Now as to landing a Cutlass on an RN carrier?!!! Seems like that raises the "dangerous" level to even more an extreme!
 
TheKiwi
New-Zealand
Even the largest of RN carriers at the time were still pretty small compared to their USN equivalents. Hence all the innovations that the RN had to come up with in order to operate modern aircraft off them. Things like angled decks, mirror landing systems, steam catapults and so forth.
 

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