All interesting designes mate, none of which the USN would go for because they are too progresive for their traditional minds!
The Clement Ader has one major flaw in it’s design, the landing strips clash with the take off areas, thus you couldn’t launch and recover at the same time which was the whole reason the angled deck design came about! See how the CVX designs here have the landing strips canted out rather than in!
The second design was an adeptation of the current CVN design and proposed for the CV-21 comp, it has the standard CVN hull but has the extraside for landing/take off’s and the Center island. The only thing that let this design down was the fact that it had three lifts, On either side aft and on centerline forward meaning that they could recover planes faster than they could launch them, and if they were to move planes from hanger to deck during flight ops, then they would have to interupt the cycle to allow aircraft to be moved up on deck via the aft lifts.
The last design was the most promising, it had the four lifts required by the USN, one either side of the tower and two aft in tandem. But like I said before, the USN are too set in their traditional ways to consider any radical design concepts!
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