Very large Admiral-class conversions could have more room than the Royal Navy could conveniently fill with single-engine aircraft. A practical operating limit of roughly 96 aircraft is proposed because organizing a still larger air group becomes difficult. Larger twins offer one way to use the ships' space while keeping the number of aircraft manageable. Their success between 1939 and 1941 would influence whether later air groups retained the common twin or introduced specialized single-engine types. Converting an existing design from one engine to two would itself require major redesign because the additional power and torque change the loads on the airframe.
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Using larger aircraft when carrier capacity exceeds practical coordination
Larger twins could use the space of an enormous carrier without increasing aircraft numbers beyond the proposed practical limit of its air-group organization.