Boats - Sailing - Ships

Flattop Makes A Name For Itself: Noe Serving with Britain's Mediterranean fleet is the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Eagle. built at cost of the equivalent of almost 0 million and specially designed to operate modern jet aircraft. Her planes now include three types of jets, the Hawker Sea Hawk fighter, Fairey Gannet anti-submarine aircraft and West-land Wyvern strike aircraft - the first time the three types have served on the carrier. Picture Shows Aerial view taken from H.M.S. Eagle's helicopter as part of her 2, 000 man crew line up on the fores[art of the flight to identify the carrier as it stead through the Mediterranean. The white markings show the carrier's angled flight deck, a British invention adopted also by the United States Navy

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