Title: A century of carrier aviation :
Authors: Hobbs, David,
Date: 2009
Publisher: Naval Institute Press,
Physical description: 304 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Language: English
LC classification: V
Contents: Beginnings -- A purpose-built ship and numerous conversions -- Take-off decks -- Take-off platforms, catapults and lighters -- HMS Furious -- HMS Argus -- USS Langley -- Progress -- Different navies, different techniques -- Flight from ships other than carriers -- HMS Implacable described and compared -- Flying from a straight-deck carrier -- Design innovation and the 'rubber deck' -- Transformation -- Flying from an angled-deck carrier -- Helicopters -- Short take-off, vertical landing -- What might have been -- Cross-deck operations -- Postscript.
Notes: First published in Great Britain in 2009 by Seaforth Publishing.
Subject headings (LCSH): Aircraft carriers--Great Britain--History--20th century.; Aircraft carriers--History--20th century.; Great Britain. Royal Navy--Aviation.; Naval aviation--History--20th century.