Avengers Movie: SHIELD Helicarrier

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One of the things that really got my attention, and that of more than a few others' as well, was the movie version of the Helicarrier. When I got that coffee-table book on the movie's production artwork, I was hoping for a large chunk of page-count devoted to that vessel. I was not let down.

Over at Facebook, box_in_the_box and I started out discussing the way Black Widow was depicted as out-conning a Trickster-god figure - sorry if that spoils any plot points at this juncture - and segued into discussing the 'Carrier. "Box" is of the mind that the movie provided the best depiction to date in any medium - including the original comics - for such a vessel as this.

I'm not sure that I can make any counter-argument. I have no expertise sufficient to that challenge, assuming it needed to be made.

There's been a couple of things about the specific comics version as shown in the Marvel Universe Handbook that caught my eye, though...both cobbled together from Marvel Universe Handbook imagery and line art from the Federation of American Scientists' website(or perhaps the USN's own public-access archives?).

Assuming that the Nimitz-class CVNs are the same length as the Helicarrier design given us by Eliot Brown...

Honestly, I usually get this techno-nerdy with Star Trek's fictional spacecraft...