Islander carrier operations
An Islander was operated successfully off Hermes in, I think, 1968, or thereabouts. B-N was hoping to convince the RN to use it as a COD aircraft. We had no aircraft embarked at the time, so it was able to use the straight deck. It did a free landing, stopping comfortably about halfway down the deck. After the nobs had got out and gone for coffee, or whatever, we pushed the aircraft back and it was flown, free take-off, two or three more times to give a 'trip round the bay' to whoever wanted it. The nobs came back, aircraft flew off, and that was that.