The Earl of Cork answers an unnamed officer's criticism that a carrier is a bad aerodrome by stressing its mobility. A carrier can move its aircraft roughly a thousand miles toward an objective in about two days, which fixed airfields cannot do. That reach can compensate for less deck space and fewer conveniences than a land base offers. Its value as an airfield therefore depends partly on the ability to change location.
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Carrier mobility as an advantage over fixed airfields
A carrier could move its aircraft roughly a thousand miles toward an objective in two days, compensating for some limits of its deck and facilities.