We take a look at how aircraft carriers became the huge war machines that they are today. 🤔 engineering
Some of the most notable aircraft carriers of WWII include the USS Enterprise, the United States' most decorated warship during the war, the HMS Ark Royal, and Germany's Bismarck battleship.34 years after Eugene Ely's warship aircraft landing in 1911, Eric Brown, from the British Royal Navy, became the first person to take off and land on an aircraft carrier in a jet aircraft.HMS Ocean, where he landed and then took off again.
Eric Brown is the most decorated pilot in the history of the Royal Navy. As a test pilot, he also holds the world record for the most types of aircraft flown, at 487.Perhaps the earliest use of the ski-jump takeoff ramp was seen during WWII when a ramp was temporarily installed on the end of the flight deck of the HMS Furious. The makeshift contraption was added to help the bomb-heavy Fairey Barracudas take off.The ski-jump ramp now helps heavy aircraft to take off on runways that would otherwise be too short. An aircraft typically needs a long runway to achieve flight speed and make lift more than gravity.
On a short runway, an aircraft will lose altitude shortly after takeoff and possibly fall into the sea. A ski-jump ramp, however, lets the aircraft leave the ground at a slight upward angle, converting its forward motion into a positive rate of climb. Even traveling at an inadequate speed to generate lift at the time of takeoff, the extra elevation gives the aircraft extra time to accelerate and generate enough lift. became the first pilot to be launched from a U.S. Navy catapult system. Since then, the catapult takeoff has been honed and improved throughout the years and is used on modern aircraft carriers today.
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