French Aircraft Carriers, 1910-2000 by John Jordan and Jean Moulin covers ninety years of French naval aviation. The book includes fifteen interwar carrier studies, aircraft information, and plans showing the conversion of the Normandie-class hull Bearn. Those drawings make it possible to examine aircraft lifts, machinery spaces, and fuel storage together. The technical commentary questions how those arrangements would work during flight operations or after damage. Later chapters follow carrier development through Charles de Gaulle and proposals for its successors.
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Ninety years of French aircraft-carrier development
French Aircraft Carriers, 1910-2000 supplies plans and design studies that reveal both ambitious naval-aviation thinking and difficult implementation compromises.