Shortly after commissioning in August 1945 — the same month Japan surrendered after the US dropped two nuclear bombs — the ship was upgraded to conduct night fighter operations, equipped with ...
This is done with different aircraft and landing craft than those on aircraft carriers, including a combination of helicopters, tilt-rotor aircraft, and landing craft such as the Landing Craft Air ...
Ely used a wooden platform constructed over the United States' Birmingham cruiser to develop the basis of the aircraft carrier ... for a perfect takeoff or landing, and Ely's efforts were far ...
The de Havilland Vampire was adapted for naval use, becoming the aptly named Sea Vampire. When the British experimental jet fighter touched down on the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ocean nearly ...