A 1936 professional discussion shows Goodall challenging overly simple proposals for carrying aircraft aboard capital ships. Aircraft required space, protection and recovery arrangements, while gun blast swept much of a capital ship's deck. He further argued that treaties had limited guns without limiting mines, torpedoes or bombs, so protection against those threats continued to demand displacement. Advances in marine engineering could therefore reduce capital-ship size only so far unless arms control also constrained the weapons driving protection requirements.
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Goodall on aircraft, protection and capital-ship displacement
Goodall explains why aircraft handling, gun blast and protection against mines, torpedoes and bombs resisted efforts to shrink capital ships.