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From: megazone@wpi.WPI.EDU (MEGAZONE 23)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Angled flight decks
Message-ID: <1990Dec17.044034.24691@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 17 Dec 90 04:40:34 GMT
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From: megazone@wpi.WPI.EDU (MEGAZONE 23)

In article <1990Dec13.033642.19678@cbnews.att.com> jvz@ccird1.cci.com (John V. Zambito) writes:
>I just bought a book called _The complete book on US firepower_. 
>In the aircraft carrier section,
>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.

The section of the deck that is angled is the landing area. The major 
advantage is that an aircraft which 'bolters' can go around to try again.
If the deck is straight, and you miss the cables, you plow into all of the
aircraft at the front of the deck. This happened a few times before angled
decks were adopted. Also the angled deck makes room for two more catapults
which can be used at the same time as the two bow cats. The angle of the
deck also keeps aircraft from having to fly directly into the wake of the
carrier.

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