flying-off deck , auch: flight deck

The conversion included two aircraft hangars and a flying-off deck.

One mount each was on the former flying-off deck and the quarterdeck while the other four were mounted two per side.

Four were mounted on the sides of the flying-off deck and two on the quarterdeck.

The upper hangar level opened onto a short flying-off deck, below and forward of the main flight deck.

In 1923 the forward flying-off deck was removed and the ship was re-rated as an aircraft tender.

Each side of the flying-off deck had a mount, forward of the 4.7-inch guns, and one was behind the island on the flight deck.

The ship was converted to operate a mix of wheeled aircraft from her forward flying-off deck and floatplanes that were lowered into the water.

She saw little operational use as she was employed for pilot training and ferrying aircraft to ships equipped with flying-off decks.

HMS Furious, a converted battle cruiser, with an 18-inch gun aft and a flying-off deck forward.

A single High Angle Control System director was fitted on the island and another on an elevated mount on the former flying-off deck.

The deck was not intended as a flying-off deck, but for starting and running up of seaplane engines and for recovering damaged aircraft from the sea.

HMS Pegasus was fitted with a flying-off deck forward, intended for aircraft with wheeled undercarriages, and a prominent hangar aft.

The four guns on the flying-off deck were removed in 1926-27 for trials of the lower flight deck, but only two were replaced when the trials were concluded.

Combat experience proved it to be by far the most useful configuration for the bow of the ship among others that were tried, including an additional flying-off deck and an anti-aircraft battery.

She was therefore redesigned with a hangar on the forecastle with capacity for six aircraft which could be hoisted through a hatch to the roof, which formed a flying-off deck.

During her 1935 refit, Glorious received three octuple 2-pounder pom-pom Mark VI mounts, one on each side of the flying-off deck, forward of the 4.7-inch guns, and one behind the island on the flight deck.

Her captain recommended that the flying-off deck be lengthened and given a steeper slope to allow gravity to boost the aircraft's acceleration and the ship was accordingly modified at Cammell Laird between November 1915 and early April 1916.

Her original flying-off deck remained in place for use by small aircraft like fighters which allowed the ship to simultaneously land aircraft on the main flight deck while fighters were taking off on the lower deck or to speedily fly off her aircraft from both decks.

The first was the "hurricane bow," a configuration where the bow was sealed up to the flight deck; this turned out to be the most useful of the three possible configurations for a carrier's bow (the other two being an additional flying-off deck and an antiaircraft battery).

The ship was given a more extensive refit from January to May 1939 that removed her 5.5-inch guns and palisades, mounted anti-aircraft guns on her lower flying-off deck, plated in the doors at the forward end of the upper hangar, and gave her a small island on the starboard side.