Liner Made Into Plane Carrier by Adding "Lattice Deck"
Contenuto
Merchant ships may be converted quickly and cheaply into aircraft carriers if the invention of John B. Quinn receives Navy approval. He proposes to crown the ships with a “lattice deck” built of parallel tubes on which airplanes could land and take off. The planes would be fitted with, wide-tread wheel-and-roller landing gears to prevent them from settling between the tubes, and it is said that the “grip” of the wheels upon the tubes would keep planes from slipping side-wise. The inventor estimates the entire deck, made of eight-inch pipes and supported by steel girders, installed on a 400-foot freighter, would weigh only 300 tons.
- Titolo
- Liner Made Into Plane Carrier by Adding "Lattice Deck"
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- Liner Made Into Plane Carrier by Adding "Lattice Deck"
- Lingua
- Eng
- Copertura temporale
- World War II
- Data di rilascio
- 1942-07
- pagine
- 27
- Diritti
- Public domain
- Sorgente
- Google books
- Archived by
- Enrico Saonara
