Additional length could have produced much more hangar space, a longer F-35B takeoff and landing run, and potentially another aircraft elevator without a proportional crew increase. The limiting factor was the availability of a yard and dock able to build the larger carrier, with British alternatives requiring costly reactivation or expansion. The discussion ties aviation capacity directly to national shipbuilding infrastructure.
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What seventy extra meters would give the Queen Elizabeth class
A comparison with Queen Mary 2 becomes a design exercise in making Britain's carriers roughly seventy meters longer.