[PAR35]

The French built an aircraft carrier that was too short for its jets to take off of

It was a landing problem, not a take off problem. The plane (E-2 Hawkeyes) could land, but it was at the edge of the deck and couldn't turn around. It had to be physically pushed back from the edge. The deck was lengthened at a cost of millions of Francs. (And then the prop fell off the ship). (And don't forget the radiation leaks from the reactor.)

[Calvin Locke]

I forgot about the radiation leaks. Must have been from the vibration the laundry equipment caused.

And don't forget that the company that made the props had a mysterious fire immediately after, and c'est la vie, the
manufacturing records on the props were destroyed.

So they pulled the props off another carrier.