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  2. Non-skid - Wikipedia

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    Flight decks are entirely covered by non-skid to prevent aircraft from sliding overboard as the ship rolls. The texture of this flight deck non-skid reveals the application strokes used to spread the mixture of paint and sand.

  3. Flight deck - Wikipedia

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    A non-skid deck surface is important to prevent aircraft from sliding on a wet deck as the ship rolls. Landing larger and faster aircraft on a flight deck was made possible through the use of arresting cables installed on the flight deck and a tailhook installed on the aircraft.

  4. USS Sable - Wikipedia

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    Along with additional supports, a steel flight deck was installed instead of the originally planned Douglas-fir wooden deck similar to what was installed on USS Wolverine. [5] The steel deck also allowed Sable to be used for the testing a variety of non-skid coatings applied to the flight deck. [34]

  5. INS Vikrant (2013) - Wikipedia

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    The flight deck is also equipped with 2 restraining gears for take-off, 3 arresting gears (20 tonne steel cables) for landing. The deck features non-skid paint and Saturn Lighting System for night-time operations. Aircraft hangar: The hangar is situated 5 decks below the flightdeck and has a 20 aircraft-capacity. It is equipped with 2 hydraulic ...

  6. Nimitz-class aircraft carrier - Wikipedia

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    An F/A-18 Hornet launches from the flight deck of Harry S. Truman. Other aircraft are stored on deck. In order for a carrier to deploy, it must embark one of ten Carrier Air Wings (CVW). [Note 3] The carriers can accommodate a maximum of 130 F/A-18 Hornets [38] or 85–90 aircraft of different types, but current numbers are typically 64 ...

  7. 2 dead in Kamaka Air plane crash near Honolulu Airport during ...

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    At around 3:15 p.m. local time on Tuesday, Kamaka Air Flight 689 crashed into a vacant building near the Honolulu airport shortly after take-off, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a ...

  8. Cockpit - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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