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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 9R (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Aircraft engine manufacturers This list of aircraft is sorted alphabetically, beginning with the name of the manufacturer (or, in certain cases, designer).
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	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/9R (833 words)

	Aircraft carrier
		Aircraft carriers are generally the largest ships operated by navies; a Nimitz-class carrier powered by two nuclear reactors and four steam turbines is 1092 ft (333 m) long and costs about $5 billion.
		Aircraft carriers are generally accompanied by a number of other ships, to provide protection for the relatively unwieldy carrier, to carry supplies, and to provide additional offensive capabilities.
		Aircraft carriers played a significant role in World War II, the most notable of which is considered to be the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Aircraft_carrier (2343 words)

	United States Navy - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Aircraft carriers are considered the most important and most powerful warships in the United States Navy.
		Modern aircraft carriers, since the deployment of the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), with the exception of USS Nimitz (CVN-68), have been named for living or dead politicians important to the Navy.
		The rise of aircraft carriers in World War II led to the declining importance of battleships, and the Navy relegated them to the roles of fire support and escort.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/United_States_Navy (8422 words)

	Aircraft carrier - WarWiki - A Wikia wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Carriers steam at speed, for example up to 35 knots (65 km/h), into the wind during take-off in order to increase the apparent wind speed, thereby reducing the speed of the aircraft relative to the ship.
		By the late 1930s, aircraft carriers around the world typically carried three types of aircraft: torpedo bombers, also used for conventional bombings and reconnaissance; dive bombers, also used for reconnaissance (in the U.S. Navy, this type of aircraft were known as "scout bombers"); and fighters for fleet defence and bomber escort duties.
		Aircraft carriers are generally the largest ships operated by navies; a Nimitz class carrier powered by two nuclear reactors and four steam turbines is 1092 ft (333 m) long and costs about $4.5 billion.
	war.wikia.com /wiki/Aircraft_carrier (5036 words)

	List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy
		This list of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy includes all types in the main hull numbering sequence, consisting of hull classification symbols CV, CVA, CVB, CVL, and CVN.
		The active carriers of the US Navy as of June 1, 2004 are the Kitty Hawk-class carrier USS Kitty Hawk, the Enterprise, the USS John F. Kennedy, and the Nimitz-class carriers Nimitz, Eisenhower, Carl Vinson, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, John C. Stennis, Harry S. Truman and Ronald Reagan.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/List_of_aircraft_carriers_of_the_United_States_Navy (194 words)

	List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy - Biocrawler
		List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy
		The following is a list of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/List_of_aircraft_carriers_of_the_Royal_Navy (209 words)

	World Aircraft Carriers List: Japanese Aircraft Carriers
		Bombed by US aircraft at Midway 4 June 1942; munitions and fuel exploded on the flight deck and hangar deck, leading to uncontrollable fires; ship was scuttled 5 June 1942.
		She would have carried a mid-size air group of her own, plus spare aircraft, parts and supplies for the fleet carriers, enabling those ships to resupply without returning to Japan.
		Conversion was typical of the light carriers, but with a single hangar, one half the boilers removed for fuel storage, and a relatively large island.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/carriers/ijn_cv.htm (5450 words)

	Aircraft Carriers - Navy Ships
		Stricken from the Navy List 1 Jun 1973.
		Stricken from the Navy List 1 Jun 1970.
		Stricken from the Navy List 1 Jun 1967.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/cv-list.htm (432 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Aircraft Carriers Work"
		Under international Freedom of Navigation laws, aircraft carriers and other warships are recognized as sovereign territories in almost all of the ocean.
		Carriers can move in excess of 35 knots (40 mph, 64 kph), which gives them the ability to get anywhere in the ocean in a few weeks.
		The carrier's two nuclear reactors, housed in a heavily-armored, heavily restricted area in the middle of the ship, generate loads of high-pressure steam to rotate fan blades inside the turbine.
	www.howstuffworks.com /aircraft-carrier.htm (1737 words)

	Aircraft Carriers - Navy Ships
		Should the situation require it, the aircraft carrier and air wing team are ready on arrival to accomplish whatever mission is given, from unobtrusive surveillance to strikes and anything in between.
		Although aircraft carriers are routinely deployed near traditional areas of potential conflict, the aircraft carrier can move to another area of the world should a crisis erupt, and be ready to operate upon arrival.
		Navy Aircraft Carriers: Cost-Effectiveness of Conventionally and Nuclear-Powered Carriers.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/cv.htm (3232 words)

	Royal Naval and Commonwealth Navies Ship List - Aircraft Carriers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Colossus class was a class of ten light aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy.
		The Glorious class aircraft carrier was a design born of necessity.
		List of Royal Navy Submarines sunk during WW11 indicating where sunk, how they were sunk, and the da
	www.royal-navy.org /shiplist/content/section/5/13 (172 words)

	NOVA Online \| Battle Alert in the Gulf \| Resources
		The Navy's page on aircraft carriers includes an illustrated history, digital images, a list of all aircraft carriers, and an explanation of the colors worn by flight deck personnel.
		Aircraft Carriers of the World, 1914 to the Present : An Illustrated Encyclopedia by Roger Chesneau.
		This behind-the-scenes tour of the aircraft carrier includes information on takeoffs and landings, flying into the danger zone, the aircraft onboard, and the role of the carrier in modern naval warfare.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/battlegroup/resources.html (302 words)

	Site Contents at the free Online Encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy
		List of aircraft of the Israeli Air Force
		List of archaic English words and their modern equivalents
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /index_187.html (142 words)

	Potomac Books - Aircraft Carriers
		Volume I provides a comprehensive analysis of carrier developments and warfare in the first half of the twentieth century, and examines the advances that allowed the carrier to replace the battleship as the dominant naval weapons system.
		AIRCRAFT CARRIER'S has benefited from the technical collaboration of senior carrier experts Captain Eric M. Brown and General Minoru Genda as well as noted historians Robert M. Langdon and Peter B. Mersky.
		Aircraft Carriers is heavily illustrated with more than 400 photographs—some never before published—and maps.
	www.potomacbooksinc.com /Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=69745 (736 words)

	French Aircraft Carriers
		List of all French aircraft carriers, helicopter carriers and air training vessels from 1913 to the present, including photos and details of service.
		She was raised in 1946 with the view of becoming a training carrier but this was cancelled and she was used as a store ship until being sold 15th May 1950.
		The US-built British escort carrier Biter was transferred to the British Navy as the Dixmude in 1945.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /french_aircraft_carriers.htm (1072 words)

	List of aircraft carriers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The list of aircraft carriers contains all aircraft carriers listed alphabetically by name.
		Independencia (Argentina): 18,300 ton Colossus class aircraft carrier.
		United States Navy): 11,500 ton light aircraft carrier and seaplane tender, commissioned from 20 March 1922 through 27 February 1942 when sunk.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers (2130 words)

	The US Navy Aircraft Carriers
		Stricken from the Navy List 10 Oct 1964.
		Stricken from the Navy List 1 Jun 1969.
		Stricken from the Navy List 15 Jul 1982; disposed of by MARAD exchange 9 Aug 1988.
	www.navy.mil /navydata/ships/carriers/cv-list.asp (839 words)

	U.S. Navy - Carriers: List of carriers
		Donated to The Aircraft Carrier Hornet Foundation for use as a museum on 26 May 1998.
		Stricken from the Navy List 1 Jun 1973.
		Stricken from the Navy List 1 Jun 1970.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/carriers/cv-list1.html (802 words)

	Naval Art from the Battle of Midway
		88-159-KA The operations island is a grim gray redoubt against the sky as this aircraft carrier steams behind her task force screen with a swarm of fighters ready on the flight deck.
		The Navy was ready, and the heroic pilots from naval aircraft carriers inflicted a major sea defeat upon two great converging forces northwest of Midway.
		The carrier Soryu is burning fiercely from stem to stern under a cloud of mushrooming smoke.
	www.history.navy.mil /ac/midway/midway1.htm (512 words)

	Haze Gray & Underway World Aircraft Carrier Lists
		The World Aircraft Carriers Lists are a comprehensive, detailed listing of all the world's aircraft carriers and seaplane tenders, from the start of naval aviation into the 21st century.
		The lists are being continually revised to ensure that the data is accurate and up-to-date.
		Andrew Toppan (actoppan@hazegray.org), being sure to state the exact nature of the error, and the list in which it was found.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/carriers (979 words)

	Aircraft Carrier database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945 Contents Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For each of the XXX aircraft carriers listed below, are Photographs, Profiles, a Short Description and History of Development (5 to 40 lines), Technical Data, Battle Honours and Operational History, Squadrons, Surviving or Preserved Aircraft Carriers and any Associations are given.
		The lists are sorted alphabetically by the names used by the Royal Navy.
		If you are uncertain about the latest or current name of an aircraft carrier, the alternative name in usage is also listed here.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /Ships/Aircraftcarrierindex.html (196 words)

	World Aircraft Carriers List Photo Gallery: USS Coral Sea (CV 43)
		The most modern carrier in the fleet when completed, she was soon made obsolete by jet aircraft and was reconstructed in 1957-60 to enable her to operate the largest aircraft then in service.
		However, the end of the Cold War lead to reduced carrier force levels, and she was discarded instead.
		The scrapping was subcontracted to Seawitch Salvage of Baltimore.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/carriers/coralsea (765 words)

	Pearl Harbor Attack: Index of Action Reports
		The key elements in Yamamoto's plans were meticulous preparation, the achievement of surprise, and the use of aircraft carriers and naval aviation on an unprecedented scale.
		Nagumo's fleet assembled in the remote anchorage of Tankan Bay in the Kurile Islands and departed in strictest secrecy for Hawaii on 26 November 1941.
		Aircraft losses were 188 destroyed and 159 damaged, the majority hit before the had a chance to take off.
	www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq66-1.htm (1340 words)

	SupremeCommanderHQ.com - Features
		This is a list of some of the fresh, and innovative features that are planned for Supreme Commander, compiled from GameSpy and PCGamer's articles on the game.
		Submarine aircraft carrier that can release a squadron of fighters and bombers on your order.
		Aircraft carriers to support you airplanes rearming and fueling needs.
	www.supremecommanderhq.com /features.php (772 words)

	aircraft museum links
		The Imperial War Museum's facility at Duxford houses most of the museum's military aircraft, and is also the site of the American Air Museum, which commemorates the United States involvement in the European Theater of world war two.
		It's a large museum and there's a huge list of the aircraft that they've got, unfortunately it's arranged so that each letter of the alphabet has a separate page, making it slow and painful to move through the list.
		The list of aircraft by designation is probably a better way of navigating around, but it's also arbitrarily split into multiple pages.
	www.richard-seaman.com /Aircraft/Museums/links.html (1257 words)

	Attack carriers
		CV and CVN replaced CVA and CVAN on 30 June 1975 to designate the multimission character of aircraft carriers after the decommissioning of the last CVS in 1974.
		Carrier Listing for CV, CVA, CVB, CVAN, CVN, and CVL
		Several carriers were also placed out of commission during major rennovations or yard periods.
	www.history.navy.mil /branches/cvcvn.htm (1992 words)

	Aircraft Carriers of the World
		Aircraft Carriers of the World WebRing is dedicated to promoting aircraft carrier related websites and keeping the memory of these grand "ladies" of the sea alive.
		U.S.S. This web site is dedicated to those who served aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. The history of the USS ORISKANY, especially information on its last Vietnam War cruise in 1972/73.
		Aircraft Carriers that VRC-50 has provided COD service.
	t.webring.com /hub?ring=carriers (893 words)

	Military List : Aircraft Carriers
		Parent organization for the sailors and airmen who served on the smallest aircraft carriers of the U.S. Navy.
		Aircraft Carrier USS Midway CV-41 and many of the ships that operated with her.
		Military List excludes all liability of any kind (including negligence) in respect of any third party information or other material made available on, or which can be accessed using, this Website.
	military-list.com /aircraftcarriers/index.php (752 words)

	Russian Aircraft Photo Collections Links
		Specs for aircraft and helicopters used for parachuting.
		Worldwide aircraft, but see especially his Walk-arounds section for great photos of Russian aircraft.
		This page is a listing by aircraft, and gives access to some background and detail on the aircraft
	www.royfc.com /links/acft_coll.html (861 words)

	Aircraft Carrier List
		This is a list of aircraft carriers in the world's navies.
		Australia's last aircraft carrier was decommissioned in 1982.
		Also, Canada's first two carriers were technically ships of the Royal Navy, and were thus "HMS" (His Majesty's Ships) instead of "HMCS".
	www.battle-fleet.com /pw/his/List_of_aircraft_carriers.htm (870 words)

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		The BIGGEST weapon, without a doubt is the aircraft carrier.
		It only takes a carrier or two to outnumber the air force of a small to medium country.
		You can click on the pictures to enlarge them but beware they will be huge and slow loading on a telephone line.
	aboutfacts.net /Weapons1.htm (161 words)

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