Реферат: The Invention Of The Aircraft Carrier Essay

ammunition, and food. The following few paragraphs will be telling you

about the parts of the Aircraft Carrier and its uses.

Each carrier-based aircraft has a tailhook, a hook bolted to an 8-foot

bar extending from the after part of the aircraft. It is with the tailhook that the

pilot catches one of the four steel cables stretched across the deck, bringing

the plane, traveling at 150 miles per hour, to a complete stop in about 320

feet. The cables are set to stop each aircraft at the same place on the deck,

regardless of the size or weight of the plane. There are also the Catapults that

launch the planes off of the ship. The four steam-powered catapults thrust a

48,000 Pound aircraft 300 feet, from zero to 165 miles per hour in 2 seconds!

On each plane’s nose gear is a T-bar which locks into the catapult’s shuttle

which pulls the plane down the catapult. The flight deck crew can launch 2

aircraft and land one every 37 seconds in daylight, and one per minute at

night.

The Bridge is the Primary control position for every ship when the ship

is underway, and the place where all orders and commands affecting the ship,

her movements, and routine originate.

The earliest flight from a ship was made off an improvised platform on

the U.S. cruiser Birmingham in 1910. The first true carrier designed to permit

takeoffs and landings was the British merchant ship HMS Argus, completed

in 1918. The first U.S. carrier, the Langley, a converted collier, joined the

fleet in 1922, and in 1927 the Lexington and Saratoga were converted from

battle cruisers.

After World War I, major carrier fleets were built by the United States,

Japan, and Britain; in the 1930s tactical exercises were held by the U.S. Navy

to study and improve efficiency of its carrier operations. By World War II,

however, Japan’s carrier fleet was numerically and qualitatively superior to

the American and British fleets in the Pacific. The use of six aircraft carriers

by Japan to attack Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, opened the war in the