Missing drawings of SCS

Ups’ were have the drawings gone?

AWD

I think the graphik desiger was drunk.
After all the ships seems to be looking like the KDX III or japanese destroyers and they both look really impressive. If the graphik designer isn’t the one who is designing the ship it might be really impressive. 🙂

May be a stupid question

Hello Bager!

I asked myself various times and no I dare ask somebody who should know it.
How many pilots/crews are assign to one plane?
On the aircraft their can be read the name of one pilot. There could be a different name on the other side: if a plane makes two or even three missions a day this seems too much for one pilot so there should be at least two crews for each plane -could you tell me?

Vickers design

Hello Ronoo!

Thanks for the infos. That really sounds versatile. On this board on another thread I found this drawing which shows the V-VAC. Here you can see the cutaway stern. It sounds really incredible that all these structures should be removable. 30 to 40 m of various decks is a lot. Well, it depends on the time you are willing to accept for this operation. I read that diesel propulsion was planned.
The idea of this design sounds interesting.

Further designs

Perhaps I should explain the designs:

The artists impression is the MAC ship –probably the ship tiddles mentioned: 181m*32,5 (probably over all) 12.500 ts (seems rather small?)
Does anybody have pictures of the McMullen design or the Iwo Jima mod mentioned by tiddles?

The bad drawing to the right is also the MAC ship. I have problems with this drawing because the bridge structure seems too big. Somebody mailed me this design.

The next on the right is a design by Vickers from July 1981. The aim was a cheaper design than the Invincible. The source is a “Warships” magazine of the early 80ies.

The last design is a V-VAC which I have also seen with a cutaway stern. It is also a british design. I don’t remember the yard. The book where I scanned the picture is I borrowed to a friend so I cannot tell the yard.

Position of lift

Hello Badger!

I like your idea of rebuilding a Colossus class carrier. An interesting what if design could be Leviathan finished in the early 70’ies – capable of carrying Super Etendard perhaps the first German Carrier in cooperation with France?
Another interesting conversion could be 25 de Mayo with new engines in the early 90’ies.
Your attempt to replace the after elevator on the starbord edge seems logical.
On the other side I am afraid that it would not have worked. The lift is only two decks above sealevel. This seems too little. If I am not mistaken only the Iwo Jima Class and Conte di Cavour have a deckedgelift that close to sealevel.
Do you know The book “Rebuilding the Royal Navy” by Brown and Moore?
There is a description of the problems of rebuilding a ship with a closed hangar with a deck edge lift. It causes structural problems. It was difficult to fit into Hermes and in Ark Royal it was abandoned after some years of service with a deckedge lift.

CTOL Conte di Cavour

Although I realy like the idea of small carriers I think the design I send will not work, because the angled deck is too short. Charles de Gaulle showed that for operating a Hawkeye 200 m are the minimum. For a Rafale or a JSF I don’t know the necessary runway but it can’t be much less. The US-Navy carriers have a lot more. Does annybody know if this design really has a chance to work?

Bremer Vulkan redrawn

As the quality of the scan of the 8000ts design for Thailand was in bad quality I tried to reconstruct the design.
Here is the result