Weather limitations in carrier aviation in the interwar and WWII eras

[Reluctant Poster]

But not until postwar.

See Japanese Unryu class (completed after the Hiyos and Taiho), WW2 Independence & Saipan class CVL, WW2 escort carriers. Even the 1948/49 flush deck CVA-58 United States (not built) and early iterations of the Forrestal design.

Going nuclear got rid of the problem.

The CVLs and CVEs were prisoners of their light cruiser and merchant ship origins. I have no idea of what the Japanese were thinking. Their funnel arrangements were generally sub optimal.
CVA 58 lost its island to accommodate the massive nuclear bomber (100,000 lb) proposed to fly from it.

Navy ADR Studies

The BuAer Aircraft Design Branch accomplished notional predesign studies to define prospective aircraft types. These were given ADR numbers and used to test the feasibility of proposal specifications, e.g. the notorious 30,000-lb jet attack airplane that Ed Heinemann compared the A4D Skyhawk to...

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