Need some Bearcat Details
10-29-2008, 05:53 PM
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Need some Bearcat Details
I'm getting ready to start on a Bates Bearcat and am planning for lights. Does anyone have any pics of the "tailcone" and the landing lights? Also, halfway out the port leading edge there is a square prism looking lens, there's none on the starboard. I don't think it's a light or a camera, does anyone know what that is?
10-30-2008, 11:16 AM
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RE: Need some Bearcat Details
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That lens contains colored lights that the landing signal officer looks at to determine the proper approach attitude of the landing Bearcat coming aboard the carrier....
That lens contains colored lights that the landing signal officer looks at to determine the proper approach attitude of the landing Bearcat coming aboard the carrier....
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RE: Need some Bearcat Details
Thanks FlyinHwn, that makes perfect sense. I was going to make a wild guess that it was some type of prism to tell whether you're coming in high or low. We used to use prisms like that for aligning payloads to rockets on the launch pad for azimuth and elevation. I just couldn't figure how a landing officer would use a theodolite on landing. But now it makes sense that a prism would just show a different color depending on the approach angle.
