[Jeff Head]

That pic is NOT the current Chinese carrier it is an artist conception of what their future CATOBAR carrier may look like.

Here's a a page with to scale comparisons

[lbryce]

I've been to your excellent aircraft carrier info site linked from previous FR posts. I posted the image of the Ex-Varyag from Google Images believing it was to scale. The jingoist patriot in me got me all riled up. :-)

Thank you for setting me straight.