Higher landing speeds turn carrier recovery into a design problem before pure jets reach the Fleet Air Arm. The angled flight deck is a comparatively simple answer that could emerge through experiments and influence later wartime carrier designs. Early British jets were structurally robust enough that a land fighter such as the de Havilland Vampire offers a plausible basis for naval conversion. Operational naval jets could follow around 1942-43, while the exact carrier class and aircraft remain uncertain consequences of the divergence.
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Landing-speed pressure brings angled decks and naval jets forward
Faster turboprops and jets could prompt wartime angled-deck experiments and navalized land fighters by 1942-43.