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The history of the Illustrious class design as far as I am concerned was that I formed a committee of the best and brightest naval officers and staff at the Admiralty to make plans for the navy of the future. We were in a uproar because we thought we were building the navy of the future and not the navy of the past. Our Idea was the carrier was the future of the Royal Navy. During all this the constructors were most helpful and sympatheticto our needs but the controller Henderson was not.
Sir David Boyd, the first captain of HMS Illustrious