Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
A cockpit or flight deck [1] is the area, on the front part of an aircraft, spacecraft, or submersible, from which a pilot controls the vehicle. Cockpit of an Antonov An-124 Cockpit of an A380. Most Airbus cockpits are glass cockpits featuring fly-by-wire technology. Robin DR400 1936 de Havilland Hornet Moth. Note the bifurcated split stick ...
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.
An armoured flight deck is an aircraft carrier flight deck that incorporates substantial armour in its design. Comparison is often made between the carrier designs of the Royal Navy (RN) and the United States Navy (USN).
HMS Argus was a British aircraft carrier that served in the Royal Navy from 1918 to 1944. She was converted from an ocean liner that was under construction when the First World War began and became the first aircraft carrier with a full-length flight deck that allowed wheeled aircraft to take off and land.
Preliminary design plan for the CF-2 type flight deck cruiser as envisioned in January 1940. The flight-deck cruiser was a proposed type of aircraft cruiser, (warships combining features of aircraft carriers and light cruisers), designed by the United States Navy during the Interwar period (between World War I and World War II).
A flight deck is the platform of an aircraft carrier used for takeoffs and landings. Flight deck may also refer to: The cockpit of a typically larger aircraft such as an airliner, transport aircraft, bomber aircraft etc.
A Federal Flight Deck Officer (FFDO) is a Part 121 Airline Pilot who is trained and licensed to carry weapons and defend commercial aircraft against criminal activity and terrorism. The Federal Flight Deck Officer program is run by the Federal Air Marshal Service , and an officer's jurisdiction is the flight deck or cabin of a commercial ...