Second Island for the QUEEN ELIZABETH – the Aircraft Carrier QUEEN ELIZABETH under construction at Rosyth now sports the second island, another of the giant pieces of the jigsaw that is the Royal Navy’s future carrier.      The second of two islands, the aft one, a some 753 tonne structure will control flight deck operations.       The current fad of providing useless comparators to illustrate statistics moves to a new high with the revelation that the QUEEN ELIZABETH will require 1½ million square metres (over 16 million square feet) of paintwork… which is slightly larger than Hyde Park!