Air Bomber
Box Formation
Close Air Support
Evasive Maneuvers
Long Range
Superfortress
Tactical Maintenance
Torpedo Bomber
Espionage
Ace Driver
Cat Burglar
Con Artist
Covert Action
Demolitions
Disguise
Guerrilla Leader
License to Kill
Linguist
Polygraph
Quartermaster
Rocket Scientist
Satchel Charges
Seduction
Smear Campaign
Surveillance
Technologist
Naval Ranged
Bombardment
Coincidence Rangefinding
Line of Battle
Preparatory Fire
Proximity Fuses
Rolling Barrage
Supply Fleet
Religious Apostle
Chaplain
Debater
Heathen Conversion
Indulgence Vendor
Martyr
Orator
Pilgrim
Proselytizer
Translator
Folding Wings
Description
+1 additional aircraft slot.
Historical Context
Even with hangar decks, things got crowded, especially when dive bombers were added to the aviation complement of the carriers in the 1930s. Since adding another hangar deck was impractical, naval “thinkers” turned to more radical solutions for packing more planes onto fleet carriers … and so folding wings were incorporated into new carrier plane designs. Despite the misgivings of some pilots (who weren’t real keen on the possibility of their wings folding up while aloft), aircraft such as the British Supermarine Spitfire and Fairy Gannet were soon aboard British carriers; by the late 1930s virtually all American carrier planes had been converted to folding wings. The Japanese ones too. Folding wings did mean more hydraulic and electrical maintenance chores, but the added planes seemed worth the trouble.
Traits
Promotion Class
Naval Carrier
Requirements
Promotion(s)
Hangar DeckDescription
+1 additional aircraft slot.
Historical Context
Even with hangar decks, things got crowded, especially when dive bombers were added to the aviation complement of the carriers in the 1930s. Since adding another hangar deck was impractical, naval “thinkers” turned to more radical solutions for packing more planes onto fleet carriers … and so folding wings were incorporated into new carrier plane designs. Despite the misgivings of some pilots (who weren’t real keen on the possibility of their wings folding up while aloft), aircraft such as the British Supermarine Spitfire and Fairy Gannet were soon aboard British carriers; by the late 1930s virtually all American carrier planes had been converted to folding wings. The Japanese ones too. Folding wings did mean more hydraulic and electrical maintenance chores, but the added planes seemed worth the trouble.
Traits
Promotion Class
Naval Carrier
Requirements
Promotion(s)
Hangar Deck
