Back حاملة طائرات محمولة جوا Arabic Fliegender Flugzeugträger German ناو هواپیمابر هوابرد Persian Dirigeable porte-avions French 空中空母 Japanese Воздушный авианосец Russian Leteča letalonosilka Slovenian 空中航空母艦 Chinese
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An airborne aircraft carrier is a type of mother ship aircraft which can carry, launch, retrieve and support other smaller parasite aircraft.[1]
The only dedicated examples to have been built were airships, although existing heavier-than-air aircraft have been modified for use in similar roles. Airborne aircraft carriers of various types appear in fiction, such as Cloudbase in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, the Helicarrier from Marvel Comics, the Iron Vulture, a hybrid airship from Talespin, the Valiant from series 3 of Doctor Who, and an unnamed one in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
- ^ Ege, Lennart (1973). Balloons and Airships, 1783-1973. Blanford Press. p. 204. ISBN 071370568X.
...ZRS-4 was a real aircraft carrier. It had been found feasible to attach an aeroplane to Los Angeles in flight and later release it again, but ZRS-4 could, while in flight, actually receive in flight five scout or reconnaissance aeroplanes and store them in a special hangar inside its huge belly.
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