“War is the father of all”, said Heraclitus and he was right. Because what would the airplane be, for example, if World War I hadn't happened? From this war, technology began to play a catalytic role in war, and this is because technological developments were more rapid than in earlier periods of history.
One of the craziest ideas born of the creation of the airplane was that of a flying aircraft carrier. A few years later, in 1941, floating aircraft carriers first demonstrated their power at Pearl Harbor. The war in the Pacific was the "school" of aircraft carriers and aeronautical operations. Fatefully, then, the idea of flying aircraft carriers came back.
There were proposals already before the end of the First World War, while during the Cold War the Americans promoted various interesting plans. But the craziest of these involved a huge flying, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier proposed by Lockheed Martin. Watch his story in the video below.
