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2. Deck (building) - Wikipedia

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   A deck is also the surface used to construct a boardwalk over sand on barrier islands. Laying deck or throwing deck refers to the act of placing and bolting down cold-formed steel beneath roofing and concrete floors. This is usually done by an ironworker, sometimes in conjunction with a cement mason or carpenter. It regarded as one of the most ...

3. Orthotropic deck - Wikipedia

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   The orthotropic deck may be integral with or supported on a grid of deck framing members, such as transverse floor beams and longitudinal girders. All these various choices for the stiffening elements, e.g., ribs, floor beams and main girders, can be interchanged, resulting in a great variety of orthotropic panels.

4. Armoured flight deck - Wikipedia

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   While flight-deck-level armour was eventually adopted by the Americans for the Midway design, the strength deck remained on the hangar level. Midway had originally been planned to have a very heavy gun armament (8-inch weapons). The removal of these weapons freed up enough tonnage to add 3 inches (76 mm) of armour at the flight deck level.

5. Flight deck - Wikipedia

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   The angled flight deck was designed with the higher landing speeds of jet aircraft in mind, which would have required the entire length of a centreline flight deck to stop. [18] The design also allowed for concurrent launch and recovery operations, and allowed aircraft failing to connect with the arrestor cables to abort the landing, accelerate ...

6. Paul Lafrance - Wikipedia

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   Cutting Edge and Design, a building contractor owned by Lafrance is in Pickering. [4] He also owns and operates Paul Lafrance Design, which specializes in high-end custom deck designs and has operations through North America. [5] He was offered his own television show after doing a segment on Breakfast Television.

7. Forrestal-class aircraft carrier - Wikipedia

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   A 1952 design study. Compared to the Midway class, the Forrestals were 100 feet (30 m) longer and nearly 20 feet (6 m) wider abeam, resulting in a far more stable and comfortable aircraft platform even in very rough weather. When commissioned, the Forrestal-class ships had the roomiest hangar decks and largest flight decks of any carrier ever ...