An utterly daft question about aircraft carriers
I was just watching a documentary on WW2 aircraft carriers, and sitting near the stern were a number of piston aircraft warming their engines up.
For no particular reason I wondered if you could get a bit more speed out of the carrier if you put all the aircraft on deck, tied them down, and gave the engines a bit of power?
I mean, say each piston fighter has about 1,500hp, and you can get twenty on the deck then that's another (inefficient admittedly) 30,000hp to help move the ship.
How about jet aircraft on a modern carrier? Less likely to overheat though hot air ingestion for the aircraft near the back would be a bother.
</daft though of the day>