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1941
1941 - 0085.PDF
JANUARY O/TH, 1941. \ AIRCRAFT CARRIERS (Continued) \j v •>•. NOW NEARING COMPLETION : The German carrier Graf Zeppelin as it appeared when launched in 1938. FLUSH-DECKED CELESTIAL: Kaga,one of Japan's largest carriers. The horizontal smoke stack is clearly shown. mand of the Admiral fighting an action; obviating any possibility of messages not arriving owing to breakdown of com- munication. Catapults for take-off and arrester gear for alighting allow a carrier a good deal of variation, of course, and speed relative to the direction and speed of the wind. Before these two aids appeared on flight d^;ks, carriers had always to steam at: i|jigh speed directly into wind during fly- ing operations. Nowadays a carrier takes its place with the fleet, and can fly its aircraft on and off with compara- tively small diversions from the general course of the action. France's only carrier, Beam, has been much in the news of late. This is largely because the end of the Battle of France found it at Martinique with a hundred American aircraft on board. Two further ships, each of 18,000 tons, were laid down in 1939, but whether these will be completed remains to be seen. They were to have been the Jofjre and Painleve. At the moment Russia has in commis- sion only the Stalin, a 22-aircraft ship, converted from a half-built cruiser, laid wn in 1914 and finished in 1938. A urther vessel of 12,000 tons, to carry 40 aeroplanes is now under construction. ILLUSTRIOUS FORBEAR: A Short S.38 taking off from a platform onH.M.S. Hibernia before World War I.
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