Format:
1 Online-Ressource (384 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9781473853690
Content:
This book is a meticulously detailed history of British aircraft-carrying ships from the earliest experimental vessels to the Queen Elizabeth class, currently under construction and the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy. Individual chapters cover the design and construction of each class, with full technical details, and there are extensive summaries of every ship's career. Apart from the obvious large-deck carriers, the book also includes seaplane carriers, escort carriers and MAC ships, the maintenance ships built on carrier hulls, unbuilt projects, and the modern LPH. It concludes
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Cover; Title Page; Coppyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Admiralty interest in aviation 1908-1911; Chapter 2: Early ship trials and demonstrations; Chapter 3: Seaplane carriers; Chapter 4: Furious and Vindictive; Chapter 5: Argus; Chapter 6: Eagle; Chapter 7: Hermes; Chapter 8: The development of carriers in other navies; Chapter 9: Courageous class; Chapter 10: Ark Royal; Chapter 11: Illustrious class - first group; Chapter 12: Indomitable; Chapter 13: Implacable group; Chapter 14: British-built escort carriers and MAC-ships; Chapter 15: Archer class
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Chapter 16: Attacker classChapter 17: Ruler class; Chapter 18: Project Habbakuk; Chapter 19: Audacious class; Chapter 20: Colossus class; Chapter 21: Majestic class; Chapter 22: Malta class; Chapter 23: A comparison with aircraft carriers inother navies; Chapter 24: The maintenance carriers Unicorn, Pioneerand Perseus; Chapter 25: Hermes class; Chapter 26: British carrierborne aircraft and their operation; Chapter 27: Post-1945 aircraft carrier designs that werenot built; Chapter 28: The reconstruction - Victorious, Hermesand Eagle; Chapter 29: CVA-01: the unbuilt Queen Elizabeth
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Chapter 30: Ark Royal - controversy, a single carrierand her aircraftChapter 31: Small carrier designs for a future fleet; Chapter 32: Short take-off and vertical landing; Chapter 33: Invincible class; Chapter 34: Ocean - landing platform (helicopter); Chapter 35: Queen Elizabeth class; Chapter 36: Aircraft carriers in the Commonwealth navies; Chapter 37: British carrier concepts and foreign aircraftcarriers compared; Chapter 38: Carrierborne aircraft in the twenty-first century; Chapter 39: Unmanned aircraft - a fast-moving technicaland tactical revolution
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Chapter 40: The Royal Navy's future prospects:the author's afterwordsAppendix; Bibliography; Glossary; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848321380
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe British Aircraft Carriers : Design, Development & Service Histories
Language:
English
Keywords:
Großbritannien
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Flugzeugträger
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Geschichte
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