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Originally Posted by dpeters95
That's great. You can really see the rounded off carrier approach that was used to defeat the "Left Wing Stall" problem.
You can also see that they are starting around the island which would be mid-shipish. I can't tell if they reach the end of the carrier from the angle but they all jump off regardless. None of them fall off the end. I know, I know, they are traveling at mach 1 with a 1oo mph headwind  |
The carrier looks like either HMS Illustrious or HMS Formidable, either way much larger than an escort carrier and capable of 30 knots under way.
One other thing the video shows clearly is the clipped wings on the RAF variant of the F4U.