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This is my entry into MIGFIXHOUND31BSM26's flying ship challenge

I hope you all enjoy!

A bit about the craft:

When I saw this challenge, I really wanted to join. I thought about several designs, but this one really fit well, so I went with it. It's not a battleship, but it would be useful in an air battle, so I think it works. (Hopefully I don't lose too many points on that, but too late now lol)
Anyway, I built it all at a small scale. (Mostly, anyway) And then I scaled it up. Designing everything in a way that would both look nice, and function well on a flying aircraft carrier took a while. And then there was the job of getting it to fly well. That took me forever. In fact, if not for Kerbango's help, I may never have posted this. (He helped me to get the hover stuff working.)
Getting it all to ballence at the same time as being able to fly flat took a while, but I have mostly managed it.
I originally intended this to be usable for VR. I am not entirely sure at the moment if it is. I am gonna add the VR tag to test if it is curated, but don't expect it to be pretty in VR.

Weapons, usage, and lore:

This was designed to carry planes to and from the battle field (battle sky???) and to act as a mobile fuel tanker, landing strip, and supplier for planes already in combat. It may not be the fastest thing in the sky, but it certainly is huge.
First, the flight deck. This was designed to act as a flying aircraft carrier. However, because of the difficulty in stabilizing such a huge ship, the more traditional “messed up x shaped” deck pattern would not work. Instead, symmetrical, 3 way deck was designed. Typically, the outer two runways, (one on the right, and one on the left) are for taking off. This allows for rapid take off of as many planes as possible. The middle runway is for landing. During flight and battle, however, take off and landings can be configured in any way best suited for the fight.
Next, the weapons. This ship, in terms of its own weapons is extremely underpowered. It has a few missiles, two cannons, and thats it. In future version(s?) of this ship, there will be more weapons. However, there is another reason for the lack of weapons. The planes are the primary defense system of this ship. It is for this reason that this ship will never travel without an escort of at least 4 modified FTA-24A Tridents. (This is the original, the modified version that is always used with this ship can be found here. These would fly in formation, two at a time, while two rest, to keep the ship safe at all times.)

Instructions:

There is not much too complicated stuff with this craft, but here is what you need to know.
Activate 1: Part of hover system+control
Activate 2: lights
Activate 3: second part of hover system
Activate 4: bay doors (plane storage)
I suggest you keep both 1 and 3 activated at all times during usage.
VTOL controls hover, and throttle controls forward.
Yaw will turn it, but it will take a while. (Hey, it’s a flying aircraft carrier, it’s not supposed to be maneuverable.)
Pitch can be used to correct its… pitch. Be very gentle with this, it can flip.

Because this is so big, it works best to land on water. Just be gentle. It will float.

The planes:

After I had the ship mostly finished, I decided that you cannot exactly have an aircraft carrier without any aircraft. I built several different designs for planes, but was not very satisfied with any of them. I remembered a plane that TUPL built a few days ago, and it fit nicely with the overall aesthetic, so I decided to modify it.
I had to do some large changes, such as making it actually be able to land, and making the wings fold in for tighter packing.
Here is the plane I modified to use with this ship.
Check out me using it:

Gallery:

Credit:

First, I would like to thank Windshifter1 for taking all the reshade screenshots appearing in this post. I alwo would like to thank Kerbango for helping me improve and fix the flight mode. Lastly, thanks to TheUltimatePlaneLover for his FTA-24A Trident which I modified to use as as a plane used on this.
Go check those builders out!

Thoughts for the future:

This took me a long time, but was a very fun project once I got some of the kinks worked out. I certainly do not think it is done, and I would not have posted it yet if not for the challenge deadline. I am considering working on an updated version of this, but I have several challenges, not the least of which being that my iPad is quite literally at max capacity running this thing. (If I add even just a few thousand pounds of weight, it will crash instantly)
This means that any future modification would have to be done on a computer, which is possible, but not as easily accessible. Click here to give me your thoughts on that, and request tags for posting. (If posting ever occurs)