Twin-engine aircraft could have reshaped carrier design

The planned twin-engine torpedo and reconnaissance aircraft for the French Joffre class could have changed carrier design across several navies. A successful peacetime demonstration might have pushed rivals to enlarge lifts and alter hangars and flight decks. American and Japanese designs presented fewer structural obstacles because their flight decks were not strength decks. British armoured carriers required more calculation, although Stanley Goodall's skill made changes to ships on the stocks plausible.