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  2. 689th Combat Communications Wing - Wikipedia

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    The 689th Combat Communications Wing was a wing of the United States Air Force stationed at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. The wing was activated on 9 October 2009 as a subordinate unit of Twenty-Fourth Air Force. On 5 June 2013, the wing was inactivated, along with the 3d Combat Communications Group at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

  3. Flight deck - Wikipedia

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    HMS Argus showing the full-length flight deck from bow to stern ROKS Dokdo's full length flight deck The first aircraft carrier that began to show the configuration of the modern vessel was the converted liner HMS Argus, which had a large flat wooden deck added over the entire length of the hull, giving a combined landing and take-off deck unobstructed by superstructure turbulence.

  4. List of carrier-based aircraft - Wikipedia

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    Sqn. Cdr. E. H. Dunning makes the first landing of an aircraft on a moving ship, a Sopwith Pup on HMS Furious, August 2, 1917.. This List of carrier-based aircraft covers fixed-wing aircraft designed for aircraft carrier flight deck operation and excludes aircraft intended for use from seaplane tenders, submarines and dirigibles.

  5. Modern United States Navy carrier air operations - Wikipedia

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    The flight deck of USS Abraham Lincoln F-14D Tomcat launches from the flight deck of USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Modern United States Navy aircraft carrier air operations include the operation of fixed-wing and rotary aircraft on and around an aircraft carrier for performance of combat or noncombat missions.

  6. Design and capability of aircraft carriers during World War II

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    Accordingly, carriers were designed to carry more aircraft and aircraft components at the expense of more anti-aircraft guns and flight deck armor. To further increase the number of aircraft carried, large numbers of them were kept on the flight deck in addition to those kept below in hangars.

  7. Armoured flight deck - Wikipedia

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    The use of a permanent deck park appeared to give USN carriers a much larger aircraft capacity than contemporary RN armoured flight deck carriers. The flight deck armour also reduced the length of the flight deck, reducing the maximum aircraft capacity of the armoured flight deck carrier, but the largest part of the disparity between RN and USN ...

  8. Independence-class aircraft carrier - Wikipedia

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    Nine light cruisers were reordered as carriers in the first half of 1942. The Independence-class design had a relatively short and narrow flight deck and hangar, with a small island superstructure. The hangar, flight deck, and island represented a significant increase in the ship's topside weight.

  9. Forrestal-class aircraft carrier - Wikipedia

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    The Forrestal class was the first completed class of "supercarriers" of the Navy, so called because of their then-extraordinarily high tonnage (75,000 tons, 25% larger than the post-World War II-era Midway class), full integration of the angled deck, very large island, and most importantly their extremely strong air wing (80–100 jet aircraft, compared to 65–75 for the Midway class and ...