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From: anthony@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Lee)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Angled flight decks
Message-ID: <1990Dec15.012745.14355@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 15 Dec 90 01:27:45 GMT
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From: anthony@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Lee)

In <1990Dec13.033642.19678@cbnews.att.com> jvz@ccird1.cci.com (John V. Zambito) writes:



>From: jvz@ccird1.cci.com (John V. Zambito)

>the author says runways have been angled ever since the British
>did research and found them to be better than straight ones. Does
>anybody have any more information. It seems that a pilot would want his 
>flight path parallel with the direction of the ship.
>This would suggest that the runway be in this direction also.

Angled deck means that there are actually two runways on the
carrier.  One parallel to the path of the ship and the other
on an angle.  The runway that is on an angle to the path of the
ship is use to recover incoming aircraft so that a carrier can
recover aircrafts at the same time it is launching aircrafts on the
other runway.  
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