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From: v059l49z@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Paul C Stacy)
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Subject: Re: Left-handed carriers
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Date: 16 Nov 90 05:18:01 GMT
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From: v059l49z@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Paul C Stacy)

In article <1990Nov15.013451.1767@cbnews.att.com>, lynch@arcadien.rice.edu (Robert Preston Lynch) writes...
>From: lynch@arcadien.rice.edu (Robert Preston Lynch)
>Just thinking...
> 
>Each and every last representation of an aircraft carrier I have
>ever seen shows a carrier with the control tower on the right
>hand side.
> 
>Did anybody, anywhere, ever build a left-handed aircraft carrier?
> 
>Thanks.
>-- 
>Robert Lynch           lynch@rice.edu


In a book I have of WWII hardware, they talked about the port-side islands of
Japanese carriers.  Apparently, putting them there created dangerous tubulence
problems.





				Paul "Joe Friday" Stacy