The larger-carrier counterfactual also changes air-group organization. A fast twin-engine aircraft with cannon and adequate payload could potentially perform fighter, bomb, torpedo, and reconnaissance work. That would allow a largely single-type carrier air group, simplifying some training and support demands while accepting a larger fighter. The idea depends on Britain adopting larger converted carriers and developing high-performance twin-engine naval aviation early enough.
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A twin-engine aircraft might have unified the carrier air group
Larger carriers and a capable twin-engine design could have supported one airframe for fighter, strike, torpedo, and reconnaissance missions.