Take a look at
this
Again, another little snippet from the web. written by Eric Grove (I think he did a series on the Royal Navy but can't remember the title) The whole piece makes interesting reading, however one bit strikes me as bizarre (but supports Richard Beedal's statement wrt conventional carriers)
This RAF’s reported advocacy of a large conventional take-off and landing (CTOL) carrier demonstrates the revolution wrought by the application of joint concepts to carrier aviation.
I thought the RAF DIDN'T under any cicumstances want CTOL. Previous reply's on this thread make a lot of sense of this. Keeping aircrew current in Carrier ops etc. So have thier Airships seen the light and are prehaps going to commit more resources to carrier ops? Or is this a ploy to try and prevent the FOAS project being put into jeopardy?