RAY,
     In a message dated 12-03-97 you wrote ...
> BTW, It's not the first time the RN has carried RAF aircraft towards a
> potential battle zone.  They did so in 1982, along with several STUFT
> ships (Ships Taken Up From Trade), heading for the Falklands.
    US Carrier ferried Spitts to Malta in WW I... One lost
 his drop tank and came back and made a carrier landing
 without a tail hook.
    During WW II, I was told that all naval pilots were
 the "Fleet Air Arm of the RAF." Navy hauled them but they
 were RAF.
   -=*  Jim Sanders  *=-
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