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Understanding Aircraft Carriers

This quiz tests knowledge on aircraft carriers, their history, operations, and specific examples from various navies, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of naval aviation.

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1 The United States Navy has the world's largest carrier fleet (half of the world's total of 22), with eleven in service and one under construction (all of them ________).

2 What does the following picture show?  Impression of the INS Vikramaditya, which is under refit for the Indian Navy.   From foreground to background: HMS Illustrious, USS Harry S. Truman, and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower   Varyag under tow

3 [6] The new carrier will cost US$762 million and will operate MiG-29K, Naval HAL Tejas and Sea Harrier aircraft along with the Indian-made helicopter ________.

4 What does the following picture show?  HMS Invincible   Four modern aircraft carriers of various types—USS John C. Stennis, FS Charles de Gaulle, HMS Ocean and USS John F. Kennedy—and escort vessels on operations in 2002. The ships are sailing much closer together than they would during combat operations.   Ripples appear along the fuselage of a U.S. Navy E-2C Hawkeye due to loads from landing on the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75).   Impression of the INS Vikramaditya, which is under refit for the Indian Navy.

5 What does the following picture show?  HMS Invincible   Impression of the Queen Elizabeth-class, two of which are under construction for the Royal Navy.   Ripples appear along the fuselage of a U.S. Navy E-2C Hawkeye due to loads from landing on the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75).   Artist's impression of the US Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier

6 What does the following picture show?  From foreground to background: HMS Illustrious, USS Harry S. Truman, and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower   Varyag under tow   HMS Invincible

7 Other aircraft—________ and V/STOL (Vertical/Short Take-Off and Landing) designs—utilize their hover capability to land vertically and so require no assistance in speed reduction upon landing.

8 Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project ________ great distances without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations.

9 What does the following picture show?  The ski-jump on Royal Navy carrier HMS Invincible (R05)   Four modern aircraft carriers of various types—USS John C. Stennis, FS Charles de Gaulle, HMS Ocean and USS John F. Kennedy—and escort vessels on operations in 2002. The ships are sailing much closer together than they would during combat operations.   Impression of the Queen Elizabeth-class, two of which are under construction for the Royal Navy.   HMS Invincible

10 From the late 1950s onward, visual landing aids such as mirrors provided information on proper ________, but LSOs still transmit voice calls to landing pilots by radio.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Arado Ar 197 plane was designed by Germany before World War II for a never completed aircraft carrier.
  • the Aichi D1A (pictured) was a carrier-borne dive bomber primarily used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • the Red Army prevented the incomplete Borodino class battlecruiser Izmail (pictured) from being converted to a carrier by gaining control of a commission appointed to review the needs of the Navy.
  • the first two classes of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers were actually conversions of other ship types.
  • the Fairey Barracuda was a British carrier-borne torpedo bomber used during World War II.
  • the Short Sturgeon started life as a high-performance torpedo bomber, became a target tug, then a naval reconnaissance bomber, and finally an anti-submarine aircraft, before failing altogether.
  • the first night-landing aboard an aircraft carrier was made by a Blackburn Dart on 6 May 1926 aboard the Courageous-class carrier HMS Furious.
  • the British aircraft carrier HMS Furious left her berth next to the battleship Royal Oak in Scapa Flow the day before Royal Oak was sunk by the German submarine U-47.
  • the Ryuho was the only major warship damaged in the Doolittle raid, and the last Japanese aircraft carrier to make a war-time voyage outside the Home Islands.
  • the light cruiser Oyodo of the Imperial Japanese Navy was Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa's flagship after the aircraft carrier Zuikaku was sunk during WWII's Battle of Leyte Gulf.
  • the L class destroyer HMS Legion rescued 1,560 crew members of the torpedoed aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.
  • SBD Dauntless dive bombers sank four Japanese aircraft carriers and a cruiser during the Battle of Midway.
  • HMAS Sydney (pictured) was the first aircraft carrier owned by a British Commonwealth nation to serve in combat.
  • Friedrich Guggenberger's U-81 sank the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (pictured) with a single torpedo.
  • Zeke Zechella, who was instrumental in the building of the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, was unable to complete a single floating nuclear power plant during his nearly nine years as president of Offshore Power Systems.
  • after being saved from the scrapyard by a U.S. delegation, two Japanese warships of the Amagi and Tosa classes, Akagi and Kaga, were converted to aircraft carriers and took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • prior to the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif, all American military flights into Afghanistan had to be launched from Uzbekistan or aircraft carriers in the Arabian Sea.
  • an aircraft which misses the arrestor cables on an aircraft carrier and needs to accelerate away is referred to as a bolter.
  • although it was intended for operation from 1930s aircraft carriers, the SNCAO CAO.600 had twin engines.
  • Imperial Japanese Navy submarine Commander Takakazu Kinashi was awarded the Iron Cross by Adolf Hitler for his role in the sinking of the American aircraft carrier Wasp.
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