Talk:Fleet Air Arm
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What does the first sentence mean :"of several navies"? Do you mean several countries' navies operate together or do the British refers to navies as the US refers to fleets? Rmhermen 16:54 16 Jun 2003 (UTC)
I didn't write that, but what the writer means is that several navies around the world operate an air arm that is referred to as the Fleet Air Arm. I will edit the article to disambig that sentence. David Newton 19:30 16 Jun 2003 (BST)
Who ever wrote the bit about the catapults has it completely backwards. It was the ROYAL NAVY that introduced the "powerful catapults" - steam catapults, the USN adopted a British invention along with the angled flight deck and mirrored landing aid.
207.159.196.2 17:43, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
- The whoel history section there is a bit wonky, the Sea Vampire was the first carrier launched jet in 1948. GraemeLeggett 08:22, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Aircraft Carriers
It says in the section called 'Fleet Air Arm' under history, that "By the end of the war the strength of the Fleet Air Arm was: 59 aircraft carriers, 3,700 aircraft, 72,000 officers and men and 56 air stations all over the world" I think I'm right in saying that the aircraft carriers are part of the surface fleet, and that the aircraft which operate from them are under the command of the FAA, in which case, the strength of the FAA shouln't include the aircraft carriers. Or was it organised differently during the war? Davepealing 19:16, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Use of "No." in squardon names
I believe that using the word "number" (often abbreviated to "No.") before the squadron name is an Air Force usage and the Navy simply uses the number for example, in the Air Force you might say No. 3 Squadron, but the Navy would say 815 Squadron. As an ex FAA (RAN) officer, I find the use of the "No." combined with the squadron number jarring.
Unless someone can show that the RN has adopted this usage, I will change the references to remove the offending word. I note that a quick review of a number of official web pages of the RN, do not use "No." when referrring to navy squadrons.Nick Thorne 00:46, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] NAS
This article and several others use the term NAS to mean Naval Air Squadron. It may be that this is correct usage in the RN, but to the best of my knowledge NAS usually means Naval Air Station that is a land based air field operated by Naval forces.Nick Thorne 00:46, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] badge and motto
any idea on either of these. a quick search throws up a winged anchor. GraemeLeggett 12:51, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Naming
When the FAA was returned to the RN in 1937, it was not officially named the Fleet Air Arm. It was not so named until 1953. I have spoken to an ex RN pilot in 1953, he recalls the year because he was a midshipman at the time when he interviewd by his local member of parliament and asked how long he had been a member of the FAA. His reply was "a month" because the name had only been officially changed that long. Prior to that it was either known as "Navaal Aviation" or the RNAS. Someone with access to official RN history may be able to supply accurate dates. Nick Thorne 02:26, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
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