crw59> I saw the "news from Trumpeter" at the Cybermodeler site crw59> and was curious about if they only carry two or not as crw59> Trumpeter was offering a 12 pack of 1/700 Kingfishers. crw59> Seemed like an awful lot of planes unless you are upgrading crw59> your exisiting kits...
crw59> If the carried replacement planes, where were they stored crw59> and how were they loaded back onto the catapult?
We're clearly talking USN here. Kingfishers were carried on BBs, CAs, CLs and I heard a few with wheels on CVs sometimes as liaison, although I may be confusing with the RN and their Walrus here...
OK, so prewar USN heavies were designed for 3 or 4 scouts IIRC, at that time they would have been I supose Seagulls. Probably same number of Kingfishers could be carried. Same with BBs. All carried in hangers and lifted out (in case of stern hangers) or up (in case of amidships hangers) by cranes onto catapult. Retrieval was done by landing next to the ship, swinging out the crane and the observer attaching a hook from there to the top wing (Seagull) or I guess some attachment on the fuselage (Kingfisher).