Photos Aircraft Carriers

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Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless dive bombers of Bombing Squadron 9 (VB-9) on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Essex (CV-9) circa 1943-1944
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Dedalo arriving in New Orleans back in 1989.
Plans to transform her in a museum as the original USS Cabot failed and she ended up being scrapped

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A picture just like those I love !
Yak-38 (52 yellow) on Kiev carrier deck overflown by Italian Atlantique maritime patrol aircraft in 1982.
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Sometimes aircraft carriers take on a very unexpected form !
These are Soviet Navy Yak-38s being tested on board civilian ships using a platform like on the IRINS Makran or Atlantic Conveyor.Soviet Navy Yak-38 (45, 0312) landing on civil ro-ro ship (1984).webpSoviet Navy Yak-38 on civil ro-ro ship.webpSoviet Navy Yak-38 landing on civil ro-ro ship.webp
 
USS Hornet CV-8 photographed late 1941, soon after completion, at an east coast port. A ferry boat and Eagle Boat (PE) are in the background. Check out her clean lines.

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Invincible class aircraft carrier ILLUSTRIOUS fitting out at Swan Hunter shipyard on May 18, 1982. The yard workers pulled out all the stops to send the ship off to the Falklands ASAP. She left the yard 3 months ahead of schedule but arrived in the South Atlantic after the Argentine surrender.

Photo by Mike Ridgard via tynebuiltships.co.uk
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