A century of carrier aviation : the evolution of ships and shipborne aircraft
- Responsibility
- David Hobbs.
- Publication
- Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2009]
- Copyright notice
- ©2009
- Physical description
- 304 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
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Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Hobbs, David, 1946- author.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-301) and index.
- Contents
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- Beginnings
- A purpose-built ship and numerous conversions
- Take-off decks
- Take-off platforms, catapults and lighters
- HMS Furious
- HMS Argus
- USS Langley
- Progress
- Different navies, different techniques
- Flight from ships other than carriers
- HMS Implacable described and compared
- Flying from a straight-deck carrier
- Design innovation and the 'rubber deck'
- Transformation
- Flying from an angled-deck carrier
- Helicopters
- Short take-off, vertical landing
- What might have been
- Cross-deck operations
- Postscript.
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Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2009
- Copyright date
- 2009
- Note
- First published in Great Britain by Seaforth Publishing, 2009.
- ISBN
- 9781591140238
- 1591140234
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