Spaceplane Carrier Landings?

[Tw1]

I think we'd need a bigger aircraft carrier. Or maybe several lined up, then bolted together ensure a flat surface....

[kurja]

Then why did he say it could stop in 260 m? I know he's wrong, but why did he say that?

What meve12 said - no one suggested it could stop in that distance. 260m is what happens to be available, not what is needed.

[jwenting]

depends of course on the modifications. If you turn it into a VTOL craft, it might, if the lift jets don't melt the flight deck and tower.

Heck, you didn't mention what level of modifications you were looking at

[Scotius]

I think we'd need a bigger aircraft carrier. Or maybe several lined up, then bolted together ensure a flat surface....

We already have those. They are called runways.

[Nao]

This thread is a weirdest kind of Deja vu...

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/90918-Spaceplane-Carrier-Landings

[Skyrunner27]

What meve12 said - no one suggested it could stop in that distance. 260m is what happens to be available, not what is needed.

What kind of jets you using that melt not only the control tower but also the runway.

[Albert VDS]

The ones which actually work.

[cantab]

Considering plenty of carriers have been designed for VTOL aircraft, I very much doubt it's going to be problem. I'd be extremely surprised if a cats-and-traps type carrier wasn't able to take a VTOL landing on it, and anyway there's always the HMS Queen Elizabeth when it's finished.

[Albert VDS]

Nvm I read jet as rocket. =X

[sal_vager]

This looked so much like another thread that I could not tell the difference, so I've merged them to stop the double vision

[cantab]

Not sure there was much point in that...the previous thread had been dead for two months, and asked a slightly different question anyway.

[meve12]

This looked so much like another thread that I could not tell the difference, so I've merged them to stop the double vision

Gah, that threw me for a loop.

cantab, might I point out that there's the small difficulty of making the Space Shuttle VTOL reliably? At least SRBs don't break easily.

[RizzoTheRat]

What kind of jets you using that melt not only the control tower but also the runway.

The Yak 141 did a vertical takeoff or landing in practice week for the Farnborough airshow in '92. Once they'd repaired the runway they only let it do conventional takeoffs and landings. Dunno what the Kuznetsov's deck's made out though