How might a rebuilt Hood have carried aircraft, and what had earlier arrangements shown?
Short answerHood repeatedly carried turret fighters and a catapult floatplane, but her rolling made launch unreliable enough that aviation facilities were repeatedly reconsidered.
NotesHood carried flying-off platforms on her main turrets during the 1920s and later received a catapult for a larger seaplane. These arrangements were fitted, altered, and removed across successive refits rather than forming one permanent aviation system. Her long, narrow, high-speed hull rolled enough to make floatplane launch hazardous outside favorable weather. A later hangar proposal had to solve an operational stability problem as well as find deck space.