A century of carrier aviation the evolution of ships and shipborne aircraft
It is now almost exactly a hundred years since a heavier-than-air craft first took off and landed on a warship, and from the very beginning flying at sea made unique demands on men and machines. As warplanes grew larger, faster and heavier, air operations from ships were only possible at all through...
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Annapolis, MD
Naval Institute Press
2009
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction; A brief explanation of flight from a ship's deck; Chapter 1: Beginnings; Chapter 2: A purpose-built ship and numerous conversions; Chapter 3: Take-off decks; Chapter 4: Take-off platforms, catapults and lighters; Chapter 5: HMS Furious; Chapter 6: HMS Argus; Chapter 7: USS Langley; Chapter 8: Progress; Chapter 9: Different navies, different techniques; Chapter 10: Flight from ships other than carriers; Chapter 11: HMS Implacable described and compared; Chapter 12: Flying from a straight-deck carrier. Chapter 13: Design innovation and the 'rubber deck'Chapter 14: Transformation; Chapter 15: Flying from an angled-deck carrier; Chapter 16: Helicopters; Chapter 17: Short Take-Off, Vertical Landing; Chapter 18: What might have been; Chapter 19: Cross-deck operations; Chapter 20: Postscript