Talk:Supermarine Scimitar

You CANNOT be serious… or can you?
"initially to a requirement for an undercarriage-less fighter aircraft to land on rubber decks."

To the uninitiated, this looks like a joke or vandalism. Since it's survived so many edits, I presume it isn't. In which case, may I ask the person with information about this interesting and bizarre requirement to add a reference and an article, however brief?

Thanks. Paul Magnussen (talk) 17:18, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * The use of rubberized decks was a novelty in the 1950s with other aircraft such as the Sea Vampire at least going through some preliminary trials. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 17:26, 23 March 2010 (UTC).


 * It's mentioned here; Eric Brown successfully tested the concept and writes extensively about it in Wings on My Sleeve. It worked, but for a variety of reasons was discontinued (one being the time involved in moving the aircraft once it had come to a stop). -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 12:25, 26 June 2011 (UTC)


 * See video here: de Havilland Sea Vampire belly landing on a rubber deck — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.4.57.101 (talk) 14:09, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

"Superseded as a fighter even prior to its introduction by other aircraft such as the de Havilland Sea Venom and the de Havilland Sea Vixen." It certainly wasn't superseded by the Sea Venom, which entered service some years earlier and was a slower and rather more primitive design.StewartFraser68 (talk) 16:02, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Survivor on the move
The Intrepid's Scimitar is being moved to the Empire State Aerosciences Museum, near SChenectady NY, so the Intrepid can make room for the shuttle Enterprise. I wasn't sure how to word this in the article, since it's apparently still in transit.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/nyregion/anticipating-space-shuttles-arrival-old-warplanes-ship-out.html

--Triskele Jim (talk) 12:04, 19 April 2012 (UTC)