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"Gord Beaman" wrote: (ANDREW ROBERT BREEN) wrote: Islands were needed for fast carriers to get the smoke out without obstructing the hanger deck, a single island was required so that eddies from the island could be shed outboard instead of across the flight deck, and the side chosen for the island was determined by the turning characteristics of rotary-engined biplanes. Once the island was on the starboard side, the longer life of ships than aeroplanes ensured it stayed there.. Thanks Andy, interesting... There's a photograph I've seen somewhere (not in Brown, though he used it at his talk at the symposium on 'carrier aviation at Yeovilton a year ago) of Furious in the 1920s which makes the point about smoke interference (and thus the need for something like an island, if only a Glorious-or-Courageous type island which more or less just consisted of the funnel) - essentially a huge, hideous clous of opaque black smoke emerging from under the aft round-down. Seeing where the carrier was would be dam; near impossible, never mind the hot plume and eddies. Having a flush deck and smoke ducts was also said to have cost Furious 10 aircraft as compared to Glorious and Courageous. The island was one of those truely brilliant ideas. -- Andy Breen ~ Interplanetary Scintillation Research Group http://users.aber.ac.uk/azb/ "Time has stopped, says the Black Lion clock and eternity has begun" (Dylan Thomas) |
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ANDREW ROBERT BREEN wrote:
snip eddies from the island could be shed outboard instead of across the flight deck, and the side chosen for the island was determined by the turning characteristics of rotary-engined biplanes. Once the island was on the starboard side, the longer life of ships than aeroplanes ensured it stayed there.. OP jumping in to say thanks to all participants for the input. Coincidentally, I've been engaged in an email discussion about rotary engines, with a friend, albeit naval aircraft have not - yet - come into play, there. Too bad I wasn't capable of adding two and two (rotary torque-turning and my carrier question) and getting four, myself. Again, I appreciate the responses. -- Thomas Winston Ping |
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