World War I Saw History’s First Naval Assaults from Aircraft Carriers
The foresight to experiment and invest in new ideas rather than just iterate upon old ones remains a vital quality in a world that continues to experience rapid technological change.
Here's What You Need to Remember: The Royal Navy pushed its technology as far as it could go in the Tondern raid, dispatching its fighters to the limit of their range from a ship they were not capable of landing back upon to attack a large target with tiny bombs. The fact that the raid succeeded beyond all expectations is beside the more important point: that the backers of the British carrier program had sensed the paradigm-changing potential of the aircraft carrier, even though the technology was still in its nascent stages.