RN Aircraft Carriers: HMS Queen Elizabeth

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HMS Queen Elizabeth..Pacific Ocean last week.
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HMS Queen Elizabeth pictured at Singapore on October 12th 2021.
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The view from FLYCO aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth....The only publicly acknowledged armour aboard her is the 4 cm ballistic armoured glass fitted, which is made to withstand the full impact of a rotating Chinook helicopter rotor blade.
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HMS Pelican 1938 - 1958 GGCV L86 U86 F86 What I Have I Hold ~ A wonderful bird is the Pelican its beak can hold more than its belly can.
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HMS Queen Elizabeth pictured conducting a RAS with RFA Tidespring.
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Today on the Quarterdeck of HMS QNLZ, a Memorial to 820 Naval Air Squadron’s Role in the Battle of Sparivento was held onboard and the ashes of Lieutenant George Gibb Royal Navy Volunteer Reserves, a Swordfish Veteran, were committed to the sea.

See - https://twitter.com/HMSQNLZ/status/1463552251637776393

Sub Lieutenant ‘AJ’ Walker met Veteran Lieutenant George Gibb back in 2019. Thought to be one of the last surviving pilots of the Fairey Swordfish, a basic torpedo bomber biplane, used by the Fleet Air Arm during WWII. Despite the 70+ year age gap the two became friends.

See - https://twitter.com/HMSQNLZ/status/1463552296126763015
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HMS QNLZ's arrival back in Portsmouth has been brought forward from Friday morning to 1530 tomorrow afternoon.

(Due to to increased wind strength forecast for Friday morning).
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Navy Lookout

How to build and aircraft carrier
New book by Chris Terrill to be published in January (by Penguin) about HMS QNLZ and the extraordinary men and women who breathed life into her.
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Work on HMS QNLZ ski jump already underway in Portsmouth.

HMS Queen Elizabeth and her escorts that returned from CSG21 will undergo maintenance but remaIn technically at “high readiness” to deploy in 2022.
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