HMS Eagle (R05)
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HMS Eagle was an Audacious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy, in service 1951–1972. Until the arrival of the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers in the 21st century, she and her sister Ark
HMS Eagle at flying stations in the Mediterranean, January 1970
Whirlwinds fly off Eagle in the late 1950s, before her rebuild
At Portsmouth's South Railway Jetty after the 1964 rebuild, with remodelled island
HMS Eagle moored in Gibraltar in January 1970
CVA-01
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CVA-01 was a proposed United Kingdom aircraft carrier, designed during the 1960s. The ship was intended to be the first of a class that would replace all of the Royal Navy's carriers, most of which ha
HMS Eagle (R05)
…Phantom fighters) were not fitted, and therefore the full potential of the ship was not realized. In 1964–1965 it was claimed Eagle and the proposed CVA01 and half sized Hermes would be a viable three carrier fleet until 1980. Victorious would have been replaced by CVA01 in 1973. In reality the 1958 Royal…
Official drawing of the CVA-01
Second page of the now-declassified RAF document "The Validity of a Royal Navy Plan to use Carrier-borne Strike Aircraft to Neutralise Indonesian Air Strike Forces"
Ark Royal (left) alongside the US Navy carrier Nimitz in 1978
The Invincible-class carrier Illustrious operating alongside USS John C. Stennis in 1998