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    The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is the surface from which its aircraft take off and land, essentially a miniature airfield at sea. On smaller naval...
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    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...
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  • An armoured flight deck is an aircraft carrier flight deck that incorporates substantial armour in its design. Comparison is often made between the carrier...
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    The flight-deck cruiser was a proposed type of aircraft cruiser, (warships combining features of aircraft carriers and light cruisers), designed by the...
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    warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft...
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    aviation, the sterile flight deck rule or sterile cockpit rule is a procedural requirement that during critical phases of flight (normally below 10,000 ft...
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    not initially contact Dubai ATC because of thick smoke entering the flight deck that obscured the radio panel. Although they were offered a diversion...
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  • up flight deck in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A flight deck is the platform of an aircraft carrier used for takeoffs and landings. Flight deck may...
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    strike, which Flavell supported and Key opposed. Both of Key's flight deck crew on Flight 548 witnessed the altercation, and another bystander described...
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  • during World War II. Possessing heavy belt armor and featuring an armored flight deck (a first for any Japanese aircraft carrier), she represented a major...
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    aerial bombs and plunging shellfire started with the flight deck, which acted as the main strength deck. The armor was generally 20 mm (0.79 in) thick except...
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  • bus Cockpit, also called a "flight deck" Deck (ship), a floor of a ship Flight deck of an aircraft carrier Cassette deck, a type of tape machine for playing...
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    rebuilt from 1935 to 1938 with her original three flight decks consolidated into a single enlarged flight deck and an island superstructure. The second Japanese...
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    aircraft carriers. Ark Royal was the first ship on which the hangars and flight deck were an integral part of the hull, instead of an add-on or part of the...
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    increasing her top speed, improving her exhaust systems, and adapting her flight decks to accommodate more modern, heavier aircraft. The ship figured prominently...
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    on the same flight deck just aft of the two pilots (all western three- and four-man deck airplanes), they also monitor an aircraft's flight path, speed...
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    clearance along the edge of the flight deck. The movement of weapons from storage and assembly to the aircraft on the flight deck has also been streamlined...
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    The different flight deck crews wear colored jerseys to visually distinguish their functions. Everyone associated with the flight deck has a specific...
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    catapults and arrestor wires for launch and recovery. As well as speeding up flight deck operations, this allows for a much wider variety of aircraft than with...
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    Flight Deck (formerly Top Gun and briefly as Soaring Chiefs) is an inverted roller coaster located at California's Great America in Santa Clara, California...
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    Aircrew (redirect from Flight crew)
    the flight deck, or cockpit, are used for the relief crew). A relief crew will take over most predominantly during the middle portions of a flight when...
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    the time needed for studying the effects of air turbulence over the flight deck from an island superstructure; problems the Germans were encountering...
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    1940 as a design study to determine the effect of including an armored flight deck on a carrier the size of the Essex class. The resulting calculations...
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    helicopters and a flight deck aft, somewhat similar to Vittorio Veneto of the Italian Navy and a larger 17,500-ton vessel with a "through-deck", nine Sea Kings...
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    other Japanese carrier with an armored flight deck, Shinano's flight deck functioned as the ship's strength deck and copied British practice as seen in...
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    Flight Deck is an inverted roller coaster located at Canada's Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. It originally opened in 1995 under the name Top...
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    sufficiently angled to keep the flight deck free of smoke in most wind conditions. Shōkaku's 242 m (794 ft) long wood-planked flight deck ended short of the ship's...
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    system to reduce the turbulence caused by hot exhaust gases. Katsuragi's flight deck was 216.9 meters (711 ft 7 in) long and had a maximum width of 27 meters...
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    Arresting gear (redirect from Deck pendant)
    run-out. Prior to the introduction of the angled flight deck, two systems were used (in addition to deck cables) to keep landing aircraft from running into...
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    than a third heavier than Yorktown-class carriers. A longer, wider flight deck and a deck-edge elevator (which had proven successful in the one-off USS Wasp)...
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