Фотографии
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The crowded deck of HMS Formidable in the Pacific with aircraft ranged awaiting launching on a strike. The customary plane-guard destroyer appears to have been promoted to a County-class cruiser!
Самолёты на фотографии: Vought F4U Corsair - США - 1940
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Looking deceptively innocent is a pair of Short Seamews. This was the aircraft on which one Boscombe Down test pilot reported 'entry to the cockpit is difficult; it should be made impossible!'.
A pair of the ill-fated Short Seamews designed for both the RAF and FAA. The latter was intended to operate from escort carriers but the Royal Navy had inconsiderately got rid of them before the Seamew flew. Possibly it had something to do with left and right hands.Самолёты на фотографии: Short SB.6 Seamew - Великобритания - 1953