HMS Eagle - Flight Deck Operations 1- 1966

An extract from a documentary about the 1966 voyage of HMS Eagle from Mombasa to Singapore.

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Travel & Events

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• HMS
• Eagle
• aircraft-carrier
• carrier
• RN
• UKN
• Royal-Navy
• Navy
• Bucaneer
• flight-deck
• sailors
• matelot
• fleet-air-arm
• wafu

[Bassmaster86]

The Royal Navy invented the steam catapult!!

[matapan50]

Glad to hear it! Brit carriers at sea again; please dont let your gov'mt find a way to sabotage this. We need help out there and who better to be out there with us than the people who invented carriers in the 1st place!

[n74jw]

@Grahampk73 No wonder the RN went with the Harrier

[Grahampk73]

@n74jw Yes they lost the cables into the sea

[n74jw]

Did the RN lose one of those cable assemblies each time they launched a Buccaneer?

[tomburley]

@1militarymike Ah yes but don't forget that reducing to a 'token' force means more money to give to illegals, and lazy non working people and also government pensions etc. You know - the types of "investment in people" that generates money for us all and stimulates domestic manufacturing jobs which generates export sales and global investment in our countries future - not to mention enabling politicians to own second homes, use generous expense accounts etc. !!!!!

[evilintel]

@magna59 Yup. Which is why the USN switch to the nose gear towbars starting with the A-7, and A-6.

[magna59]

So every time the launched a plane the lost a chunk of cable ?

[1militarymike]

It's criminal that the armed forces have been reduced, this nation once had a great Navy, Army and Air force, but now we have only a token force.

[Planetar17]

What galls me is that Britain gives billions in aid to countries that hate it, like Pakistan. Save that money and complete and commission those two new flattops instead, or give money to India who're are building up defenses against Pakistan and China.

[mig25pd]

Now, that's a Navy!!!!

[mig25pd]

Now that's a Navy!!!!