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was adjustable, to give different flight approach paths different aircraft and gyro-
stabilized, to compensate for the ship’s motion.
The “mirror” was introduced into service in 1954, the same yea as the third
British flight-deck innovation of the 1950s, the steam catapult, that worked by using
steam from the ship’s min boilers.
“Ark Royal”, commissioned in 1955, was the first British carrier to have
operational stream catapult.
11.4. EXERCISES
1. Ответьте на вопросы.
1.
How many “plane guard” destroyers had an aircraft carrier since the earliest days
of Naval aviation?
2.
What was the purpose of the aircraft carrier at that?
3.
What happened on the “Thesus” during its final patrol off by Korea?
4.
Why was such modification done?
5.
When did the first Sikorsky R-4 arrive to the Royal Navy?
6.
What were its characteristics?
7.
What was the Sikorsky S-51?
8.
What was the first operational squadron 848 equipped with?
9.
What were its characteristics?
10.What was on 3 December 1945 off the Isle of White made?
11.What was the traditional deck layout considered?
12.What was the first solution of the point?
13.What did further trials require?
14.How could a pilot monitor his own approach?
15.What were other innovations on the aircrafts?
2. Переведите текст 11.5. без словаря.
11.5. Техт
Naval Aviation
The Royal Navy had achieved its own air arm almost in a series of inspired
experimental lurches. “Empress”, “Engadine” and “Riviera” were converted cross-
Channel ferries. “Ark Royal” was a collier, bought off the stocks at Blyth in
Northumberland and completed as a seaplane carrier. “Manxman”was a converted
packet, “Nairana” an Australian mail steamer, “Pegasus” the Great Eastern steamer
“Stockholm”, “Campania” a converted Cunard liner.
In March 1917 the large cruiser “Furious” had her forward 18-inch gun
removed and replaced by a flying off deck, on which Squadron Commander Edwin
Dunning made his historic first deck landing, off Scapa Flow, on 2 August 1917.
“Argus” the word’s first true carrier, with a flush flight deck 550 feet (168 m) long
from Stem to Stern, was converted from the ex-Italian Liner “Conte Rosso”; from
