aircraft carrier Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/aircraft-carrier/ Mechanically-minded travel Sat, 11 Oct 2025 12:08:29 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Grumman Wildcat FM2 https://mechtraveller.com/2021/08/grumman-wildcat-fm2/ https://mechtraveller.com/2021/08/grumman-wildcat-fm2/#respond Tue, 10 Aug 2021 11:35:26 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=6956 The Wildcat is an amazing aircraft that filled a much needed gap in the U.S. and Allied navies’ arsenal at the start of WWII. Descriptions of it, by pilots and historians often use words like “pugnacious”, “heroic” and “rugged”, which it certainly was, but they all recognise that the Wildcat was outclassed by its faster […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2021/08/grumman-wildcat-fm2/feed/ 0 Why Do Aircraft Carriers Have Their Island On The Starboard Side? https://mechtraveller.com/2019/11/why-do-aircraft-carriers-have-their-island-on-the-starboard-side/ https://mechtraveller.com/2019/11/why-do-aircraft-carriers-have-their-island-on-the-starboard-side/#comments Mon, 18 Nov 2019 09:25:19 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=5510 I came across this little ‘factoid’ in the National Museum of the Royal Navy’s in-house magazine, Scuttlebutt, which was a fascinating publication until they stopped publishing it! It’s one of those ‘unknown unknowns’ as Donald Rumsfeld would say. I didn’t know that I didn’t know it… until I read it! Have you ever noticed that […]

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