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From there he could command the entire angled deck.

The F-14 flew off the angled deck and climbed into the landing pattern.

The carrier had come about so that the wind was blowing down her angled deck from bow to stern.

Three arresting gears would be fitted on the aft part of the angled deck.

Picard stood up, leaning against the seatback to keep his balance on the angled deck.

The aircraft boltered and went off the angled deck and into the water, nose first.

The chopper lifted from the deck and began traveling forward, toward the edge of the angled deck.

Woods taxied forward to cat 3- one of the waist catapults on the angled deck.

The redesign to an angled deck allowed a very large island, much larger than on previous carriers, giving unprecedented flexibility and control in air operations.

About a year after commissioning, her forward port 4.5 inch (113 mm) guns were removed to improve aircraft operations over the angled deck.

It was the first class of so-called supercarriers, combining high tonnage, deck-edge elevators and an angled deck.

Woods rolled his wings level three quarters of a mile behind the ship, lined up with the centerline of the angled deck.

This was despite post-war modifications significantly altering her appearance - the addition of an angled deck and a Type 984 "searchlight" radar.

A number of improvements to the original design were ordered by the Indian Navy, including an angled deck, steam catapults and a modified island.

He struggled with it, but the steeply angled deck had pulled the straps tight, and the curled toucan clamp would not budge.

The Gs pressed him back into the seat and the forward edge of the angled deck rushed toward him and swept under the nOse.

Before the angled deck emerged in the 1950s, LSOs used colored paddles to signal corrections to the pilot (hence the nickname).

Upgrades might also include exchanging the troublesome steam powerplant to the gas-turbine or even nuclear propulsion and installation of catapults to the angled deck.

Independence was built with an angled flight deck with four C-7 steam catapults, two on the bow and two on the angled deck.

She was different from the American carriers in that she had a fourteen-degree ski jump on the main takeoff deck and a second angled deck of seven degrees.

The O3 level was just below the flight deck; their stateroom was exactly where the angled deck met the rest of the flight deck, forming a shoulder.

In 1953 the USS Antietam trained with both US and British naval units, proving the worth of the angled deck concept.

The plane tried its hardest to get airborne again, but the steel cable held it back and finally stopped it fifty feet short of the end of the angled deck.

The angled deck also allows simultaneous launching and recovery of aircraft, and the installation of one or two "waist" catapults in addition to the two bow cats.

The Intruder leapt forward, its left wing sweeping over the heads of the men squatting in the safety area, and raced for the edge of the angled deck three hundred feet away.