RN CVs - priority given to aircraft capacity and fuel load
It's late 1933, and the RN makes a policy decision that all future RN carriers must give priority to maximising aircraft and fuel capacity (both AVGAS for ops, and bunker fuel for max range). There is...
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In this work, it is argued that the British interwar aircraft requirements were set by an analysis of operational requirements, and that deck parking was analyzed and rejected as early as the early...
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And the relevence is??? In this A-H it is already stipulated that the revised thinking allows more aircraft per ship AND the same number of them!!
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Relevance? That your third and fourth sentences in your last post relate to OTL (or appear so to me), and it would appear that the opinions behind those sentences would benefit from reading the work I...
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Ah yes, so since that was where the reasoning that went on in OTL led to in OTL, no one could ever have reached any different conclusions, no matter what, eh? That is what I get you are saying.
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What I am saying is not too complicated. Simply that this statement Even in OTL, the procurement of aircraft was decided by the numbers needed by the existing, building, and planned carriers! That...
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I like your alternate Albacore, and is the Gloster monoplane fighter being pulled by a Hercules?
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My thoughts went like this (away from sources so from my head). If you wanted an effective carrier strike force in May 1940, what would you do to go about it? The work I mentioned above essentially...
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Well I can't pretend to be knowledgable about anything other than changing nappies these days but it looks interesting to me. I've also been tinkering with an alt hist with a bigger, earlier FAA...
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It was already in there for some reason Construction was stressed skin monocoque construction for the fuselage and wing centre section. Although the F5/34 had featured a one piece metal wing, the...
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The semi recessed wheels to avoid damage to the fuselage on the event of a wheels up landing intrigues me - whilst I like the idea, it does kind-off suggest you are expecting a wheeles up landing...
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On that score, some thoughts One of the reasons why the Merlin didnt go bad was the ability to concentrate so many resources on its development! The Merlin was a relatively low risk development...
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Doh! Sorry I missed that. In my altH the RN operates two carriers based on Hood hulls as well as Spurious Curious and Ridiculous, some get rebuilt late 30's early forties to Illustrious standards...
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Quote:(alledgedly there is a diagram in Burt, Brit BB 1919-39 of Courageous with an Illustrious style rebuild and extensive bulging but I'm told there are no copies in libraries anywhere in Canada...
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Quote:alledgedly there is a diagram in Burt, Brit BB 1919-39 of Courageous with an Illustrious style rebuild and extensive bulging Do you mean this?
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What does that do the hanger area and to the ships speed? Anybody have an idea what the extra 14ft of beam would do for the ships in their original large cruiser role? Presumably the new hull form...
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Thanks Brad, that looks like what i was thinking of - I guess there's no more information? So the upper hanger would become a gallery deck? That is an immense rebuild, Ark Royal cost L3.5M to buy, the...
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A 1938 rebuild is probably just not worth it but what if the extra beam had been added during the initial conversion? What would this do the aircraft capacity (assuming a double hanger), aviation fuel...
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I am under the impression that the remaining hangar would be made higher, to accomodate the larger modern aircraft.
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Alas, that is indeed all that Burt has on the subject. Regarding the upper hangar, no, I don't think that it would become a gallery deck. No other RN CV had one, and I don't think that this conversion...
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