1927 Aircraft Carrier

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Tuesday, June 14th 2005, 8:32am

well that explains why you can't see it on most top veiw pictures of Wasp. Its also very similar to a deck parking system I've seen, IIRC the Americans also tried to use this small T to park aircraft further outboard on the flight deck to maximize their deck park capability's.

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Guilherme Loureiro

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Tuesday, June 14th 2005, 1:27pm

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Originally posted by Ithekro
Perhaps it has something to do with the weight of a side elevator on an already heavy deck, plus the cut in the side of the support structure for the planes in the hanger (hangers in this case) to access that elevator?

The latter. The Forrestals were able to manage having four big holes on their strength deck due to sheer size and fancy structural design(the nature of which was not explained - on purpose).

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Swamphen

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Tuesday, June 14th 2005, 2:29pm

The only problem I have with Europa's deck edge 'vator is that it seems like robbing Peter to pay Paul - you've eliminated a hole in the deck armour - now you've got one in the belt, instead.