I didn't say it was a good book...



On Wednesday, 4 April 2018, 9:31:56 am AWST, Douglas Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:




On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 4:33 PM, Graham Donald (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
I have a novel in my collection called 'Random Track' by Austin Ferguson (1979), it's one of those ones I think was intended as the script for an 'All-Star Disaster Movie', anyway the plot climaxes with the landing of a DC-10 on an aircraft carrier named USS Valiant. For anyone who's interested here are the specs culled from the "List of Ships in Fiction" over on the Shipbucket forum.

USS Valiant (CVN-?): 1,200ft long (main flight deck 1,080ft, angled deck 800ft), 49kts, launched 1978; name doesn’t fit carriers


DC-10 minimum landing runway: 1,720 meters. Oops. *Splash*

Not to mention the starboard wing is going to hit the island and send the aircraft tumbling away in a ball of fire.

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