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	Flight deck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is the surface from which its aircraft take off and land, essentially a miniature airfield at sea.
		Landing an aircraft on an aircraft carrier was made possible thought the use of arresting cables installed on the flight deck and a tailhook installed on the aircraft.
		Later the flight deck was designed into the carrier hull, becoming a structural element (a move necessitated by the ever-increasing size of the ships, from the 13,000 ton USS Langley (CV-1) in 1922 to over a hundred thousand tons in the latest Nimitz-class carriers), and later still, were made of steel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flight_deck (518 words)

	Carrier Design
		The Flight Deck is often described as one of the most dangerous places in the world because of the numerous high-performance aircraft launching and landing in a relatively small, confined area.
		This bar on the nosegear of the aircraft attaches to a shuttle protruding from the flight deck and connects to a pair of pistons in the trough.
		Flight Ops are sometimes interrupted by unforeseen circumstances that requires a fast, yet safe reorganization of the flight deck to make unscheduled launches or recoveries.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/cv-design.htm (1741 words)

	HMS Ark Royal (R09) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When commissioned, she had a 5.5° partially-angled flight deck, 2 steam catapults capable of launching aircraft weighing up to 30,000 pounds (14,000 kg), a deck-edge lift on the port side, modified armament, and the new mirror landing system.
		Her flight deck as built was 800 feet (240 m) long by 112 feet (34 m) wide.
		From March 1967 to February 1970, she underwent her final major refit, whicn included an 8.5° angled flight deck, new catapults taking her up to three, and arresting gear, a new island, and a partially new electronic suite (some of her original radars were retained).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Ark_Royal_(R09) (818 words)

	USS Hornet Flight Deck
		The most striking external change was the replacement of her original "straight deck" with a modern angled flight deck, permitting the simultaneous launch and recovery of aircraft.
		She was also fitted with a pair of H-8 hydraulic catapults, which ran parallel to one another off the bow of the ship.
		To the left of this frame is another hatch that ends in an escalator, which was originally used by heavily-laden aircrews coming up to the flight deck from the ready rooms on the second deck.
	www.webcom.com /amraam/cv12-flightdk.htm (313 words)

	CultTVman: Ron Gross's Jupiter 2 Tips
		Please note that the profile of the flight deck assembly is lower that that of the studio set because of the floor positioning with respect to the central seam line.
		Since these computer decks have a lower profile than their full-size counterparts anyway, the obvious solution is simply to remove them in the same manner as that of the seats, build up base supports from layers of plastic sheet, and reassemble each piece.
		If you choose to fill in the flight deck beams with trimmed pieces of plastic sheet, consider extending them out past the edges of the supplied parts in order to fill in any gap which may be present between the beams and the edges of the viewport.
	www.culttvman.com /ron_gross_s_jupiter_2_tips_par.html (2823 words)

	Aircraft Carrier Essex History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A kamikaze hit the port edge of her flight deck, landing among planes gassed for takeoff, causing extensive damage, killing 15 and wounded 44.
		She was decommissioned in 1947, then modernized and recommissioned in 1951, with a new flight deck and streamlined superstructure.
		Following the Korean action, she was again modernized, this time with a angled flight deck, and saw duty in both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets in the late 1950s.
	www.essex.navy.mil /history/cv9.htm (355 words)

	Installations on the Flight Deck
		That's the beginning of the flight deck at the stern of the carrier.
		This is the place where the angled deck ends and the port bow begins.
		Two steam catapults are located forward on the flight deck and two on the angled deck amidships.
	navysite.de /cvn/flightdeck.htm (1415 words)

	CV-9 ESSEX Class
		With a slightly shorter flight deck, a somewhat longer bow and other changes to accomodate an expanded anti-aircraft battery, hulls in early stages of construction were built to this modified design that incorporated lessons learned from early combat, without delaying completion.
		With their flight decks essentially unchanged from its World War II design, these vessels were increasingly unable to handle the new high-performance, heavier jet aircraft of the post-Korean War era, and they were reclassified an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) support carrier.
		On the morning of 19 March 1945, while her flight and hangar decks were crowded with fully armed and fueled planes preparing to take off to attack the enemy, a Japanese plane approached undetected and hit the Franklin with two bombs.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/cv-9.htm (2456 words)

	Custom Wooden Plaques of US Navy Ships. The Anchor Store; preserving memories of Navy ships and sailors.
		Besides her sheer size and weight, she was the first built with an angled flight deck, which allows simultaneous takeoffs and landings.
		Forrestal had been launching aircraft from her flight deck on strikes against an enemy whose coastline was only a few miles over the horizon.
		The plane crashed as the pilot attempted to land while the aft portion of the flight deck was crowded with aircraft.
	www.theanchorstore.com /Carriers/cva59.htm (3319 words)

	Navy Matters \| CVA-01
		The flight deck terminates about 50 feet before the stern and there is now just one Sea Dart launcher, located on the centre line of the fantail.
		The significant loss of flight deck area due to the open fantail and large island is shown well.
		Flight deck of HMS Invincible, HMS Illustrious is in the background.
	navy-matters.beedall.com /cva01.htm (10491 words)

	Dawn of the Super Carrier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The modernization also included strengthening the flight deck and clearing it of guns, increasing elevator capacity and adding special provisions for jet aircraft such as blast deflectors.
		She displaces nearly 90,000 tons and stood bow-to-stern, the 1,123-foot flight deck is only 100 feet shy of the top floor of the Empire State Building.
		Their twin nuclear reactors give them the freedom of mobility to deploy almost anywhere in the world and the 1,092-foot flight deck rivals the busiest commercial airports, launching and recovering up to 90 aircraft on hundreds of flights each day.
	iml.jou.ufl.edu /projects/students/millerj/Dawn.htm (912 words)

	HHQ - DB2000 Encyclopedia
		Description: The Midway class were the last US carriers built in WWII and the last constructed with axial flight decks.
		With the developement of the angled flight deck by the British in the 1950s and the building of the first large US carrier with the new layout, USS Forestal, these were outdated so in the 1954 Roosevelt went into refit.
		In 1956 she rejoined the fleet with the new angled deck and was followed by the others over the next few years.
	www.harpoonhq.com /encyclopedia/HTML_Files/us_cv_midway.htm (250 words)

	Flight Deck Operations
		On the flight deck men move in many different directions in what appears to the uninitiated observer to be chaotic.
		The Flight Deck Chief (Ye) was responsible for "calling the deck" during flight deck operations.
		The landing portion of the flight deck angled in such a way as to free the launch area for plane storage, respotting (moving planes to predetermined positions), refueling, munitions loading or unloading, repairs, continuous launching, or a combination of these.
	www.netmeister.net /~cpaige/17FLIGHTOPS.htm (3217 words)

	Carrier Aviation
		This upward curving ramp, at the front end of the flight deck, ensures the aircraft is launched on an upward trajectory and gives considerable performance gains when compared with the corresponding flat deck, short take-off.
		Tests of the angled flight deck were soon arranged for the trials carrier HMS Triumph, the flight deck's landing line being repainted 10 degrees off the centre line.
		This was invented by Commander N Goodhart and consisted of a gyro controlled mirror facing aft on the port side of the flight deck, with a spare to starboard.
	www.stevenwillingale.com /cva.htm (1120 words)

	DB2000 Encyclopedia - Ship Entries
		Refit involved adding 8.5 deg angled deck as well as major overhaul.
		She was laid up from 1986 due to catapault problems but was refitted from 1991 and returned to service in 1993.
		The last Tracker was flown from her decks in 1996.
	www.harpoonhq.com /encyclopedia/HTML_Files/Brazil.htm (1032 words)

	Carriers & Battle Groups
		Decks are angled so that pilots missing the arresting gear will be able to go around again without hitting other aircraft.
		The angled flight deck permits simultaneous launching and landing of aircraft.
		It was the first time in the squadron's 52 year history that a Blue Angel aircraft landed and launched from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier.
	www.scenery.org /carriers.htm (1207 words)

	ARK ROYAL class carrier
		In 1954 she entered a refit, and re-entered service in 1955 with a 5.5 degree angled flight deck and new mirror landing sight.
		From 1959 to 1964, she was in refit during which a fully 8.5 degree angled deck was added along with steam catapults, long range 3D and Type 965 AKE-2 air search radars, Seacat GWS22 SAMs, and additional generating power.
		Flight deck armour was reduced, and her boiler plant was overhauled.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/rn/carriers/arkroyal (769 words)

	Centaur class aircraft carrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ship had an axial flight deck and was thus unsuitable for operating the jets then rapidly supplanting piston engine aircraft in the Fleet Air Arm.
		Consequently, from 1956 until 1958, the ship underwent a substantial reconstruction to provide for an angled flight deck.
		Not being completed until 1959, some 15 years after being started(!), Hermes incorporated a full angled flight deck and other changes compared to Centaur, Albion and Bulwark.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Centaur_class_aircraft_carrier (722 words)

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		The war ended for Hornet when twenty-five feet of her forward flight deck was wrecked in a Typhoon in early June, 1945.
		This was the SCB-125 upgrade, which included a hurricane bow, steam catapults and angled flight deck.
		On the flight deck, a Docent took a group of about 10 of us up to the Pri-Fly and then to the bridge.
	www.modelwarships.com /features/ships/hornet_museum/hornet_museum.htm (1025 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		From 26 to 29 May 1952, the feasibility of the angled deck concept was demontrated in tests conducted on a simulated angled deck aboard Midway by Naval Air Test Center pilots and Atlantic Fleet pilots in both jet and prop aircraft.
		Here, she was out of commission until 30 September 1957, while she was modernized and such new innovations as an enclosed bow and an angled flight deck were installed.
		The landings, made "hands off" with both flight controls and throttles operated automatically by signals from the ship, highlighted almost 10 years of research and development and followed by almost six years the first such carrier landings made with test equipment.
	members.aol.com /midwayoi/history.htm (1935 words)

	USS Midway History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		She was fitted with two steam catapults on the bow and a shorter steam catapult in the new angle deck.
		The flight deck was increased in surface area from 2.82 acres to 4.02 acres.
		The angle deck was cleared and the pilot made a good approach and landed with room to spare.
	www.midwaysailor.com /midway/history.html (7752 words)

	CV-41 USS Midway
		East coast and Caribbean training was highlighted by operation "Sandy" in which in September 1947 she test fired a captured German N-2 rocket from her flight deck, first such launching from a moving platform.
		Here she `was out of commission until.30 September1957,while she was modernized and such new innovations as an enclosed bowand an angled flight deck were installed.
		Homeported at Alameda, Midway began annual deployments with the 7th Fleetin 1958, and was on on such duty in the South China Sea during the Laotiancrisis of spring l961.
	www.multied.com /Navy/CVB41Midway.html (409 words)

	CV 63 Kitty Hawk
		These ships are larger than those of the Forrestal class and have two elevators forward of the island structure and portside elevator on the stern quarter rather than at the forward end of the angled flight deck.
		The Air Department added several major changes to the flight deck, including enlarging the jet blast deflectors (JBD) and installing more powerful catapults in order to handle the new Grumman F-14 Tomcat, which Hawk was standing by to receive for its next deployment.
		For the rudders, large holes were cut through the decks, and the rudders and all associated systems were removed.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/cv-63.htm (2074 words)

	ModelWarships.com review
		One is in the stowed position at an angle beneath the island.
		The other has just made a dramatic landing angled flight deck part of the ship and all planes in the area had to be cleared immediately as I tried to make it look like there was confusion.
		The one on the angled flight deck has steps, and a tow mule with a luggage wagon attached to the back for an expected guest that hasn't yet come out of the cabin door.
	www.modelwarships.com /reviews/ships/cv/cvn-65/350-rs/cvn65-rs.htm (772 words)

	U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers, Part IV
		On 16 Sept. 1951 one of these planes, damaged in combat, crashed into aircraft parked on the forward flight deck causing an explosion and fire which killed seven.
		May 26-29, 1952 - Tests proving the feasibility of an angled flight deck were conducted aboard USS Midway (CVB 41) using a simulated angle deck.
		24, 1955 - The CNO directed that the term "angled" be used describe the deck of aircraft carriers in which the landing runway was offset from the line of the keel.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/carriers/cv-hist4.html (1499 words)

	SOUTHERN LATITUDES: History of USS Ticonderoga
		While it allowed American flight operations to continue through the day, it also brought new gusts of the "Divine Wind." Just after noon, a single-engined Japanese plane scored a hit on USS Langley with a glide-bombing attack.
		She continued patrols over Japanese territory and sent reconnaissance flights in search of camps containing Allied prisoners of war so that air-dropped supplies could be rushed to them.
		Those modifications were completed by early 1957 and, in April, she got underway for her new home port of Alameda, Calif. She reached her destination on 30 May, underwent repairs, and finished out the summer with operations off the California coast.
	www.angelfire.com /ga3/tropicalguy/TicoHistory.html (5070 words)

	Starshatter Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It is as if the ai cannot see any flight path for landing at all on the stations and just tries to fly in any direction to the hanger...
		Please note that the AI pilots are still going to have a hard time landing on the Dragon if it is moving, due to the angled flight deck.
		All launch decks have an end point that the fighter is supposed to fly to.
	www.starshatter.com /forum/thread.php?topic=2229 (1122 words)

	Sea Power: Ready on arrival: Super Hornet joins the fleet
		As his aircraft's tail hook reached for one of the four arresting cables spanning the flight deck, Tysler applied full power to the Super Hornet's two General Electric turbofan engines.
		Only when a safe arrested landing was assured (on a "number three wire") and the flight deck officer's lighted wands signaled him to reduce power did Tysler pull his engine throttles back to idle and follow the directions of yellow-shirted aircraft handlers to taxi to his parking spot on the busy flight deck.
		Eric Devita, quickly but purposefully reviewed the maintenance records for the Super Hornet he would fly during the squadron's third impromptu tanker mission of the night, Flight operations were scheduled to continue well past midnight, and it was proving to be an interesting but challenging conclusion to the day's exercise activity.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3738/is_200206/ai_n9125414 (1403 words)

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