Chapter
Chapter 4: Furious and Vindictive
Chapter 8: The development of carriers in other navies
Chapter 9: Courageous class
Chapter 11: Illustrious class – first group
Chapter 13: Implacable group
Chapter 14: British-built escort carriers and MAC-ships
Chapter 16: Attacker class
Chapter 18: Project Habbakuk
Chapter 19: Audacious class
Chapter 20: Colossus class
Chapter 21: Majestic class
Chapter 23: A comparison with aircraft carriers in
other navies
Chapter 24: The maintenance carriers Unicorn, Pioneer
and Perseus
Chapter 26: British carrierborne aircraft and their operation
Chapter 27: Post-1945 aircraft carrier designs that were
not built
Chapter 28: The reconstruction – Victorious, Hermes
and Eagle
Chapter 29: CVA-01: the unbuilt Queen Elizabeth
Chapter 30: Ark Royal – controversy, a single carrier
and her aircraft
Chapter 31: Small carrier designs for a future fleet
Chapter 32: Short take-off and vertical landing
Chapter 33: Invincible class
Chapter 34: Ocean – landing platform (helicopter)
Chapter 35: Queen Elizabeth class
Chapter 36: Aircraft carriers in the Commonwealth navies
Chapter 37: British carrier concepts and foreign aircraft
carriers compared
Chapter 38: Carrierborne aircraft in the twenty-first century
Chapter 39: Unmanned aircraft – a fast-moving technical
and tactical revolution
Chapter 40: The Royal Navy’s future prospects:
the author’s afterwords