> they could probably launch an aircraft which is going to land somewhere else They couldn't launch anything that wasn't a helicopter or a VTOL aircraft. Carri

> they could probably launch an aircraft which is going to land somewhere else They couldn't launch anything that wasn't a helicopter or a VTOL aircraft. Carriers need upwards of 30 knots of wind over the deck, in the right direction (blowing from the front) to launch ordinary planes. You won't get that transiting a canal. Carriers do it by going to full speed in the open sea.