Quote from: bayonetbrant on December 04, 2019, 04:30:46 PMQuote from: mirth on December 04, 2019, 03:21:32 PMThey could have fit them with catapults, but they deemed the cost to install/operate/maintain them to be prohibitive.Steam, or electromagnetic? I hear there's a design expert with some very specific thoughts on it... I seem to remember reading that they considered steam since the electromagnetic system had not been sufficiently developed at that time
Quote from: mirth on December 04, 2019, 03:21:32 PMThey could have fit them with catapults, but they deemed the cost to install/operate/maintain them to be prohibitive.Steam, or electromagnetic? I hear there's a design expert with some very specific thoughts on it...
They could have fit them with catapults, but they deemed the cost to install/operate/maintain them to be prohibitive.
USS Lexington at anchor off Honolulu, Hawaii, 8 Apr 1938
Not much freeboard.
I'm sure that you are well aware that I used the word purely in a nautical sense.
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) transits through the Strait of Gibraltar, Dec. 5, 2019