Catamaran aircraft carriers

[PR19_Kit]

  That particular carrier suffers from an extreme angles on it's flight deck, so extreme landing on would be a real chore. 

You'd have to be flying sideways to land-on if the ship had any speed on! 

[PR19_Kit]

Not sure about catamaran aircraft, although I'm pretty sure they're a "thing";

SM-55 and 66! 

Droooool! 

[Steel Penguin]

those work very well   

thanks they do seem to fit the missing image in my minds eye.

[sandiego89]

Catamans suffer from twisting movement between the hulls, so they are not great for aircraft carriers.....

Building it and maintenance would also be a huge problem.  Drydock/graving docks are hugely expensive to build and maintain and are often not available when you need one (ask the Russians), and there may only be one or two in the whole world that could fit a large catermeran type carrier (I am thinking of some of the large graving docks used for oil rigs, not sure even those are big enough).  Securing this dock for the several years required to build one and for periodic and emergency drydocking would be problematic.   

[PR19_Kit]

And it'd be a problem getting one through the Panama Canal if required.

The Suez may not be so much of a problem, so long as you could get past the 'parked' Chinese box boats anyway.....

[ysi_maniac]

This is what I mean.

http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=363.msg199489#msg199489

[Joe C-P]

That might work, though the air compliment seems minimal.  Maybe extend it with a plug, 30-50 meters, give it a few more aircraft?

There are models of those catamarans if you're interested in building it.

JoeP

[seadude]

What about this design? I like it! 
https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/stealth-aircraft-carrier-3d-model-1890618

[Tophe]

my problem is i keep reading the title of the thread and thinking,  how would a catamaran aircraft work???   the carrier can be just a normal ship,  but how does a catamaran aircraft work...  and normal double ups just dont fit the question / mental image

I wrote the (French) book "Catamarans du ciel" (catamarans in the sky) and it was published in 1994. It was not specifically about twin-hull flying boats (even if I know maybe 40 such families of projects) but about twin-boom aircraft saying they are for aircraft like what catamarans are for ships.
This book is now free to download inline at http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/CdC2.pdf  (but big: 6.6Mb)

[Tophe]

twin-hull flying boats

Here is a rather modern Twin-hull airliner (dream) like of the 1950s with 6 turboprop in the Pan-Am airways:
https://www.pinterest.fr/pin/85779567894741342/

[ysi_maniac]

Beautiful
Thanks for posting