Originally Posted by
msbbarratt
Still, it's pretty hard to dismiss the large imbalance between investment in carrier capable and non-capable aviation.
Anyway, I think it's high time the RAF were closed down, and the assets (such as they are) absorbed into the FAA. It's been an interesting experiment but clearly it's run its course. A floating runway is a lot more useful than a runway in the wrong country, and it's kinda nuts that the RAF is allowed to deliberately buy aircraft that don't like getting their wheels soggy. Can't RAF pilots cope with bracing airs and sea sickness? I know they can't spot when snowmen have been built around concrete bollards.
(Tin hat on, ducking for cover behind the keyboard, fly swat at the ready
).
Considering policy at the time was war in Europe and UK air defence it's positively worthless to buy overly large floating targets.