Re: Climbing on board a fighter

In article <Xns9967A6B583B36ch2uswestnet@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Clark <ch2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ed Rasimus <rasimusSPAMLESS@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:unct831rvhg4c2auc4jadg01ql5i24kfjc@xxxxxxx:

On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:18:11 +0200, Max Richter
<RichterMax@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Now my questions: Is there a policy that Navy-planes have steps or
ladders build in them?

Can't speak for USN policy, but I can't think of any recent Navy
designs that didn't have some sort of fold-down/out steps.

No ladders = less stuff to be stowed on a flight deck and less to be
blown around a flight deck. Last USN carrier aircraft I can think of
without a ladder was the A-4. You could get on it during cross
countries and such by stepping on the wing drop tank fin thence the wing
and inch up the refueling probe. That's the way we did it in training
command anyway.

Pugs
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