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[StartQuote] Yes on the Aircraft Carrier. Actually the war ending killed the program. The plan was to launch the aircraft from the Zuiderzee (which was still open to the North Sea), giving the aircraft an additional 150 NM range and thus opening up previously protected Northern German targets to air attack. The Photo is one of the two 55' Sea Sleds built for launching aircraft that were completed just before the end of the war. It was a hybrid of his original design and incorporated sponsons with flared bottoms and small steps.in order to provide additional width to support the large multi-engine bombers as well as improved turning capability of the sleds. Hickman fully understood that the addition of the sponsons would degrade the boat's seakeeping in heavy seas, but you would only be launching these large aircraft in the protected waters of the Zuiderzee (assuming the Dutch would let you). [EndQuote]
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