Why Aircraft Carriers Have Island On Right Side? #shorts

Women are always right, but there's something else you'll find always on the right too, and that is the island of an aircraft carrier. But why the carrier's Island is always on the right hand side or starboard side of the ship. All you need to know is that the carrier's control tower is on the star board side for a good reason! Before the jet age, the earlier propeller planes produced a lot of Torque, when ever a lot of power was added. This torque caused the aircraft to turn left or port side, because as I said earlier, the Women are always RIGHT. Just kidding, the torque reaction involves Newton's third law of Physics, for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction. If the aircraft's propeller is rotating in one direction which is the clockwise direction from pilot's perspective, an equal force will try to rotate the aircraft in the other direction. Now do some math, if the Islands were on the port side, the torque will force the aircraft to go left, and plane could have hit the tower which could have injured the sailors on board and damaged the ship, but with jet powered aircraft today, this whole thing is irrelevant. By the way, 2 Japanese carriers Hiryu and Akagi had island on the port side.

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[pops]

US carrier : woman is right
Japanese : No

[oniichan]

I see op has recently "lost" an argument with the missus XD

[speedmaster]

“Women are always right”. This is a true statement for all men that are still married or remained married.

[juri]

some Japanese carriers from WW2 would like to have a word with you…
Edit: didn‘t watch till the end! Sorry!

[duncanmcgee]

"Why is the island always on the right side or starboard side? Well its on the right side for a good reason."

[eon]

I Invoke the right to contest the first statement!!!!

[MrDmitriRavenoff]

A few early carriers had islands on both sides and you landed in between them. They quickly realized that was a bad idea. Also they did some tests and realized most pilots flinched to the left so if they panicked they would pull up to the left in an attempt to fly back around for another pass.

[nicostohrer]

I love the fact that germany was the first nation to Plan an aircraftcarrier with an island (SMS Ausonia) and pratically had the first catobar carrier but never had a single carrier in action

[TheScandoman]

Well, actually, a single jet engine does develop a lot of rotational inertia, but, it takes more time to develop, and to dissapate: jets are usually landing on carriers with engine at, or very nearly at 100% rated power, in case they don't hook an arresting cable, so they can then stay airborne.
In WW2, the planes were landing at much lower speeds, and engines could rev' up much faster before a plane would get to the other end of the flight deck and need to go back up...but it is that sudden rev'ving of a single engine when they dont 'hook up' that generates the torque effect.

[markfryer]

I thought it was because of a pilot's natural inclination to turn to the left (port) side. But the propeller torque issue could also have played a part in that "natural turn to the left"

[jimstokes]

The reason that those Japanese carriers had the Islane on the port side was so that carriers could be in tight formation without the aircraft from another carrier interfering.

[glidersaur]

The Brits, in their enormous wisdom, equipped their carriers late in the war with the Rolls Royce Griffon-powered Supermarine Seafires. The Griffon engine rotated counter-clockwise, producing a strong tendency for the aircraft to pull to the right. A lot of aircraft were lost because of this, since the pilots had been accustomed to the earlier Seafires powered by the Rolls Royce Merlin engine, which rotated clockwise, producing a left-hand yaw.

[ristube]

Basically you described how a helicopter travels straight (tail rotor compensates opposite torque).

[matthelord]

"Like i said earlier woman are always right, just kidding"
Bro 💀💀

[maxiic]

I love the part when he actually explains why modern carriers have isles still.

[Kid-toucher-]

They may think they are always right but what the didn’t realize is that they have no rights therefore cannot be right

[thomaslemay]

Well you kind of came close to getting it right, what actually happens when you raise the tail of an airplane you change the pitch of propeller blades increasing the thrust on one side of the propeller and decrease and it on the opposite side suddenly which causes a deviation from straight travel that is determined by which direction the propeller is rotating and no they don't all rotate the same way some aircraft engines to run the opposite direction . And mini multia aircraft engines have been designed so that the propellers on opposite sides of the fuselage counter rotate to each other .

[networkbike]

Maybe true about the torque but when falling people mostly go to the left. Ask somebody who skiies to imagine themselves falling down. Then ask which way they fell.

[bigchief]

That’s because Japanese aircraft propellers spin counter-clockwise.

[melthebelgian.]

If the "island" was on the port side it would be on the runway, obviously.