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American carriers after the Lexington-class, and the earlier Japanese carriers, had their armour placed at the hangar deck, essentially treating the hangar spaces and flight deck as superstructure – making these areas very vulnerable to the blast from GP bombs and other explosions, which in turn caused massive casualties in comparison to RN ...
The North American Aviation T-6 Texan is an American single-engined advanced trainer aircraft used to train pilots of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), United States Air Force (USAF), United States Navy, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force and other air forces of the British Commonwealth during World War II and into the 1970s.
The SNJ-3C/-4C/-5C versions had an arrestor hook for carrier landings. SNJ-1 Similar to Harvard I but with BC-1 wing center section, metal-covered fuselage and late T-6 type wing, 16 built. SNJ-2 Same as SNJ-1 but with a R-1340-56 engine and changes to carburetor and oil cooler scoops, 61 built. SNJ-3
On November 14, 1910, pilot Eugene Burton Ely took off in a Curtiss plane from the bow of Birmingham and later landed a Curtiss Model D on Pennsylvania on January 18, 1911. In fiscal year (FY) 1920, Congress approved a conversion of collier Jupiter into a ship designed for launching and recovering of airplanes at sea—the first aircraft carrier of the United States Navy.
HMS Argus showing the full-length flight deck from bow to stern ROKS Dokdo's full length flight deck The first aircraft carrier that began to show the configuration of the modern vessel was the converted liner HMS Argus, which had a large flat wooden deck added over the entire length of the hull, giving a combined landing and take-off deck unobstructed by superstructure turbulence.
HMS Furious in 1918 – Note forward flying off deck, and original cruiser superstructure. HMS Argus in 1918 – the world's first full-flight-deck aircraft carrier. USS Ronald Reagan in 2005. In less than 100 years aircraft carriers have developed into a powerful tool for the projection of power in pursuit of national interests.
The Implacable-class ships had a flight deck protected by 3 in (76 mm) of armour. [4] The sides of the hangars were designed to be 1.5 inches (38 mm) thick to protect the hangar from low-level attacks with 500-pound (230 kg) semi-armour-piercing bombs, but were supposedly thickened to 2 inches (51 mm) late in the design process at the cost of ...
The Model 3000/T-6 is a low-wing cantilever monoplane with enclosed tandem seating for two. It is powered by a single Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-68 turboprop engine in tractor configuration with an aluminum, 97-inch (8.1 ft; 2.5 m), four-blade, constant-speed, variable pitch, non-reversing, feathering propeller assembly and has retractable tricycle landing gear.