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Aviation History
1951
1951 - 0738.PDF
45--4 FLIGHT 20 April 1951 43 Admiral's spare sleeping cabin 44 Admiral's day cabin 45 Paint store 46 Cable store 47 Kit locker 48 Kit stores 49 Recreation flat 50 Seamen's bathroom 51 Locker flat 52 Boiler room vents fans 53 Compressor room 54 Turbo-generator 55 Engineers' workshop 56 Bathroom 57 Locker flat 58 Workshop and 59 Naval store '•' 60 Offices 61 Church . 62 Offices 63 Air Group office 64 Pay office 65 Link trainer room 66 Buzzer room 67 Captain's cabin 68 Cable locker 69 Clothing store 70 Flour stores 71 Store 72 Photo-printing room 73 Photo-developing room 74 Sports store 75 Ship's coy locker flat 76 Naval stores 77 Turbine condensers 78 Port high- and low-pres- sure turbines 79 Turbine reduction-gears 80 Stores 81 Oxygen store 82 Stores 83 Flour store 84 Stores 85 Steering-gear machinery 86 Fresh-water tanks 87 Cold rooms 88 Machine space 89 Canteen store 90 Oil fuel settling and recovery 91 Stores 92 Rudder 93 Mainmast 94 Radar mast DECKS FLIGHT UPPER GALLERY UPPER HANGAR LOWER GALLERY LOWER HANGAR MAIN LOWER ^ PLATFORM-* THIS remarkable drawing by Max Millar shows very clearly the size and complexity of a fleet aircraft carrier. For purposes of clarity, the Attackers and Wyverns shown in the hangars are spread out rather more spaciously than would normally be the case, and, purely in order to make the drawing as informative as possible, several flight-deck conditions have been merged. Thus, for example, an Attacker is shown on the catapult, whilst a forward deck-park of aircraft is ranged. It should also be pointed out that this drawing shows H,M,S. "Indomitable" as she was prior to her recent re-fit. Full-load tonnage... Length O.A. Beam Draught Cruising range ... Speed Propelling machinery Auxiliary machinery, steam and Diesel Ship's oil fuel Aircraft fuel Ship's complement Aircraft 29,730 754ft 95.75ft 29.5ft 6,000 miles 31 knots Parsons geared turbines, 110,000 h.p. 3 shafts 3,000 Kilowatts 4,800 tons 75,000 gallons 1,600 Up to 80 AIRCRAFT TRACTORS CRANE FOR AIRCRAFT BOATS AND STORES AERIAL MASTS (LOWERED) ARRESTER WIRES /— - . . . _l SPARE AERO-ENGINE STORE DECK LANDING CONTROLOFFICER —• 3611K371B38 .u; TURBINE ROOM Sifted by silicon-manganese bow-springs, which are pulled iown (to lower the wires) by compressed-air piston/cylinder :nits.The crash barriers are essentially similar to the arrester ires, each barrier consisting of a "fence" of steel wires, ang between articulated arms whereby the barriers can be raised and lowered. Like the arrester wires, the barriers canalso be pulled out by an aircraft (or anything else, for that matter) running into them, but the maximum pull-out dis-tances are considerably less than apply in the case of the wires. The barriers are remotely controlled from the (port)deck edge midway between them. The catapult mechanism is a virtual reversal of that used for the arrester gear, in that the catapult trolley is actuated by a cylinder/piston unit through a system of rope reevings to give an 8 : 1 magnification of piston travel. The system is basically pneumatic the pressure of air admitted to the cylinder being adjusted to give the trolley speed required for the weight of the particular aircraft being launched. A rough rule in thin context is 1 lb/sq in air pressure for each 10 lb of aircraft weight. Having launched the aircraft, the trolley is returned by admitting water-glycerine to the cylinder in order to re-compress the air. (Continued overleaf)
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