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Ok so the only thing left are the Seasprite helicopters, I have made a prototype engine and a mold so I can start to make multiple copies.

Nice. I want to step on the ones I did, after seeing yours.

Nice project! Looking forward to more updates!
Aop

have they already made 1/350 intrepid aircraft yet?

No not yet, still waiting for those and for the planes for the HMS Ark Royal to be released

No words, simply perfect.

Jorge

Did Essex class carriers carry a7 corsairs? And f4u corsairs?

My research shows that the Essex class carriers that where modernized, like the USS Intrepid did carry both the A-7 Corsair and the F4u Corsair, just not at the same time of course.

cool i may consider that when buying aircraft for my own intrepid. Also t6he navy claimed f4 phantoms and a6e intruders were too heavy too operate from the upgraded essex class during vietnam, yet low and behold they operated squadrons of A3D skywarrior's the biggest aircraft in the Navy off their decks...yet a little f4 cant be operated off it...i just found that kinda funny.

Van halen 217 wrote:cool i may consider that when buying aircraft for my own intrepid. Also t6he navy claimed f4 phantoms and a6e intruders were too heavy too operate from the upgraded essex class during vietnam, yet low and behold they operated squadrons of A3D skywarrior's the biggest aircraft in the Navy off their decks...yet a little f4 cant be operated off it...i just found that kinda funny.

If I recall correctly, is was not the size of the phantoms and such, it was that the weight of the plane compared with the higher speed needed for catapult takeoff was too much for the modernized Essex catapults to handle.

Oh ok, thanks for clarifying that....

And, the catapults. They could toss an A-3 off of the deck but had trouble with a fully loaded F-4, oddly enough. Add in enough bombs and tanks to the Double Ugly and the cats had "issues." It's the same reason the Midways often couldn't launch fully loaded F-4s, so their strikes over Vietnam often had F-4s used more for CAP and BARCAP duties, and if they did launch with dirt moving stuff they couldn't carry as much as the F-4s operating from their bigger decked brethren. The difference was that the Midways coudl at least catapult F-4s carrying useful loads while the Essexes could not.

For more fun, the Midways could operate F-14s and did, just not regularly as their hangars couldn't handle the Tom. They'd do carquals and such off of them.