USS Enterprise Spectacular Carrier Landing Crashes 1940 - SBC Helldiver biplane TBD Devastator, F3F
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The U.S. Navy brought high-speed motion picture cameras to bear on aircraft carrier operations such as these views from USS Enterprise throughout 1940. From the number of mishaps, it is evident carrier landings still had a lot of art and less science in them at that time. These films were critical to education and engineering analysis as aircraft carriers became ever more important in the immediate prewar years. Tires popped on impact, landing gear crumpled or broke clean away a number of times, and it happened over and over. Watch as a sailor gestures as if to will a slow-flying TBD Devastator into the air after it misses the wires and barrier and dips off the port side of the Enterprise.
When the wooden flight deck takes strikes from a whirling propeller, bright splinters fly. Some carrier decks of the era used teak wood for planking; later, when the war made teak less available, Douglas fir was common. Repairs could be made quickly while underway.
Continuous improvements in tailhook designs and arresting cables and barriers, and landing gear, plus a growing history of experience all served to diminish the frequency of mishaps such as these.
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