aircraft carrier

I know this is a well covered subject but I was wondering if there is anywhere an RN document from 1965 or 1966 showing what its planned 1975 or so carrier fleet was supposed to look like. Based on what has been posted here already here is a stab at what I think was intended Fleet Carriers...

Not being much of a German aircraft specialist, I find myself stuck trying to identify this strange little pusher bird... It may well be a Focke-Wulf project, but that's my only clue. I'm sure someone will be able to identify it soon and put me to shame! Thanks in advance for your help.

Huntington Ingalls video of U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) build sequence: View: http://youtu.be/q4F_JcFZSU4

Let us consider the following. Suppose that CVA-01 and her two sisters are built as originally planned*, entering service in, say, '72, '75 and '78 respectively. The CAG would have been, iirc, 36 jets, 18 Phantoms and 18 Buccaneers on each ship. Given that the FAA replaced these aircraft with...

I have been looking for some drawings or pictures of the unbuilt Verdun aircraft carrier that the French government ordered at the end of the 1950s, but I've been unable to find any. According to wiki, it would have had size and displacement similar to today's Marine Nationale CDG, albeit with a...

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:) Very interesting article from Navy International April 1975 regarding a convertible warship design. Does anyone have access to further information, perhaps a larger and clearer drawing as per page 23 or 25? Enjoy and I look forward to any replies.

Found a couple of notes on Invincible class from my Aviation & Marine International magazine collection September 1979: April 1976:

We all know CVA-01 was scheduled to start building in 1966 and that F-4 Phantoms had been ordered as a stop gap replacement for the Sea Vixen following the cancellation of the Naval P1154. So if the fateful decision to cancel the CVA-01 and dispose of the fixed wing carrier fleet hadn't...

(Surprisingly there are no dedicated topics to this project within the Naval Projects, which was a surprise to me, plenty of references across the forum and movie posted in The Bar, but no specific project thread. :-\) The prime source for the CVF program was Richard Breedals Navymatters.com...

Artist impression of CVB-59, later USS Forrestal (CVA-59), in 1951. Edit: The ship that was to become USS Forrestal was ordered as CVB-59.

Having followed all the excellent threads on the CVA 01 and RN carrier aircraft saga I find myself wondering what would have happened if a smaller aicraft could have been designed. The RN tried to get carriers to operate the Phantom and Buccaneer combination. In doing so it limited its options...

Have any designs emerged for the US Navy's 6000 ton Corsair "pocket" carrier? http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/corsair.htm http://www.marinetalk.com/articles-marine-companies/art/In-the-Navy-Size-Does-Matter-xxx00092819OT.html Will the ship likely resemble the UXV surface...

In a story called 'The Last War' by Jan Nienmczyk http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1914&st=0&sk=t&sd=a He mentions a 1988 proposal to turn two flat steel product ships into CVE for the RAN, this never happened due to opposition from the CNS but does anyone have any...

This is going to sound off-topic, but bear with me. The Miles M.38 Messenger was a STOL light aircraft originally designed as an Airborne Observation Post for artillery spotting and eventually used as a VIP transport and liaison plane. When the U-Boats seemed to be winning the battle of the...

Courtesy of the Warships One Forums. One of the nicer Ark videos I've seen http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/1271-full.html#199354

No doubt running late...but an interesting design with help of Fincantari. Expected to weigh in at 38,000t full load, 250m in length and about 24-32 aircraft.

French concept for an aircraft carrier put forward in 1985 - 24,000 tonnes overall length 220m and beam of 60m. Have this interesting drawing, I am looking for an artists impression of this concept. Two centre catapults are 75m long and can launch 22t aircraft, less powerful ones either side can...

Displacing 13,200 tons, space for 16 aircraft. 15deg ski jump. For peacetime operations a helicopter operates from the rear deck, in wartime the rear deck would be built up with containers to lengthen the flight deck. Length 604 ft. Source: Flight International, 12 Jan 1980.

The Soviets had a number of stilborn aircraft carrier projects from the 1930's all the way through to the 1990's. One of the most studied was Project-72 dating back to WW-II (1943) I think. Other projects include Project-69A, Project-85 and Project 1123 (Moskova concepts) before getting to the...