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The USS Midway is 296m long, with 282m of that being its flight deck. The USS Enterprise is 342m long, with 336m of flight deck. That's 54 metres of differenc
by tomaytotomato 2y ago
The USS Midway is 296m long, with 282m of that being its flight deck.
The USS Enterprise is 342m long, with 336m of flight deck.
That's 54 metres of difference which doesn't seem a lot, but to an F14 pilot they would be very precious meters of landing distance.
Amazing that they hooked the first time round on the first arrestor cable too!
- Retric 2y agoIf you look at the USS Enterprise and Midway flight decks they don’t make use of the full length of the ship for landings. That seems crazy, but by traveling into the wind you can subtract the ships forward speed from an aircraft’s stall speed.
- icegreentea2 2y agoYa, probably the relevant length from stern to the end of the waist deck - as I understand it if you need go around ("bolt") on a carrier landing, your going off the waist deck. From peeking at some pictures, it doesn't look like the midway waist deck is much shorter than on a Nimitz or something.