Back حاملة طائرات محمولة جوا Arabic Fliegender Flugzeugträger German ناو هواپیمابر هوابرد Persian Dirigeable porte-avions French 空中空母 Japanese Воздушный авианосец Russian Leteča letalonosilka Slovenian 空中航空母艦 Chinese
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An airborne aircraft carrier is a type of mother ship aircraft which can carry, launch, retrieve and support other smaller parasite aircraft.[1] The only dedicated examples to have been built were airships, although existing heavier-than-air aircraft have been modified for use in similar roles.
- ^ Ege, Lennart (1973). Balloons and Airships, 1783-1973. Blanford Press. p. 204. ISBN 071370568X.
...ZRS-4 was a real aircraft carrier. It had been found feasible to attach an aeroplane to Los Angeles in flight and later release it again, but ZRS-4 could, while in flight, actually receive in flight five scout or reconnaissance aeroplanes and store them in a special hangar inside its huge belly.