Duck monoplane & He70, yellow : hybrid aircraft/animals e.a.

[PR19_Kit]

Don't any of you guys read the history books? 

We wrote some of them................ 

[steelpillow]

We wrote some of them................ 

[ericr]

I am quite proud that my modest model fired such specialists discussions 

[zenrat]

But why does it have an arrestor hook though?

Fishing.

[NARSES2]

Don't any of you guys read the history books? 

Just realised that Lightnings (the jet ones) had them as well.

Yes, but land based aircraft's hooks tend to be less stressed than the full-on carrier types.

Excuse me if I'm missing the point, but if they were intended to arrest the aircraft shouldn't they have been stressed the same as carrier aircraft's ?

[PR19_Kit]

Excuse me if I'm missing the point, but if they were intended to arrest the aircraft shouldn't they have been stressed the same as carrier aircraft's ?

You'd have thought so, but carrier hooks are HEAVY duty looking things compared with their land based equivalents.

Compare an F-14 hook with a Lightning one, and don't compare Phantom hooks, they were carrier based to start with and the land based versions didn't use different hooks.

[zenrat]

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Yes, but land based aircraft's hooks tend to be less stressed than the full-on carrier types.

Excuse me if I'm missing the point, but if they were intended to arrest the aircraft shouldn't they have been stressed the same as carrier aircraft's ?

Saltwater fish are bigger than freshwater.

[scooter]

Excuse me if I'm missing the point, but if they were intended to arrest the aircraft shouldn't they have been stressed the same as carrier aircraft's ?

You'd have thought so, but carrier hooks are HEAVY duty looking things compared with their land based equivalents.

Compare an F-14 hook with a Lightning one, and don't compare Phantom hooks, they were carrier based to start with and the land based versions didn't use different hooks.

A carrier hook has to cause a plane to go from landing speed to naught in a couple of hundred feet (or less) on a postage stamp.  A land based hook only has to act as an external braking force for x amount of hundreds of feet down concrete runway.

[kerick]

It might have something to do with how often the hook gets used as well as the stopping distance.

[ericr]

this is indeed a very high-level debate, exploring a very sensible hypothesis set ;
as the designer of his model, I can now reveal who did the right guess :

Zenrat

[zenrat]

 

[ericr]

talking about aircraft having comparable sizes ...

here comes, in the very same 1/72 scale, a Tomcat mixed with a B-17G fuselage I had left from an earlier project :



here too the wings are movable (but not together, individually)

[TheChronicOne]

I love that.

[kerick]

Your saw never gets a chance to cool off! 

[Cobra]

Super Cool i can Picture somewhere in the world of Gerry Anderson, a Officoer of some Rogue Nation Yelling,"What? the World Air Force has a New Interceptor? Where were the Intell Reports? Who Dropped the ball? I Want Answers,NOW!" Keep up the Superb Work Dan