rlevasse@hawk.ulowell.edu (Roger Levasseur) (01/20/89)
># Don't forget, too, that there was an E-3 in the area which had flown ># off the Kennedy. The E-3 is the Navy AWACS aircraft and it can ># provide excellent lookdown and side views covering thousands of square ># kilometers. > >As I remember, the Navy's E-2s (Grumman Hawkeyes) are entirely >different from the Air Force's E-3 AWACS. I'd be surprised if the E-3 >could take off from a carrier :-) >From "The Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet", Naval Institute Press: The Navy flies the E-2C Hawkeye; the E-3 Sentry is the larger land-based AWACS plane. It says the E-2C has been offered as an alternative to the E-3. Radar coverage is effective out to some 240 n. miles. Speaking of large planes flying off of aircraft carriers. Its says that a C-130 Hercules has done landing and takeoff trials from the aircraft carrier Forrestal without arresting gear or rocket/catapult assistance. I cannot find the reference, but this is the largest plane that has done this. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Roger Levasseur University of Lowell rlevasse@hawk.ulowell.edu