Joffre's twin-engine air group prompts a recurring counterfactual developed with Drachinifel: what if two or three Hood-class ships had been converted into aircraft carriers? Very large flight decks, combined with a British aircraft establishment unlikely to grow in proportion, might have pushed the Fleet Air Arm toward fewer, larger twin-engine types. Such aircraft could trade deck density for the operational advantages that twin engines offered during the interwar period. This remains a what-if scenario rather than an adopted Royal Navy design or air-group plan.
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A Hood conversion counterfactual for twin-engine carrier aircraft
A recurring counterfactual asks whether converting two or three Hood-class ships would have pushed the Fleet Air Arm toward fewer, larger twin-engine carrier aircraft.