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If 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 i
by Retric 2y ago
If 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.