The Air Force s Crazy 747 Aircraft Carrier Concept

Get the first 2 months of Skillshare for free: Enjoy over 23, 000 classes covering just about anything Support Mustard on Patreon: Mustard Store: Website: Twitter: It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: A Boeing 747 with an internal hanger loaded with 10 specially designed fighter jets. An on board crew to launch, recover, refuel and rearm the jets while in midflight. Sleeping quarters and a crew lounge to ensure that a squadron of 14 fighter pilots and 18 mission specialists stay rested. All of it hurtling forward at Mach 0. 85, 35 thousand feet above sealevel. Thats asking a lot from a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet. But a once classified feasible study prepared for the U. S. Air Force details how it could be done. An Airborne Aircraft Carrying Boeing 747 might have been an overlyambitious, overlycomplex and hamhanded idea from 1970s,