CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread
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Left photo, the 3 small black block from your 2nd photo can be seen forward of the 2 opening. Look carefully. Covers or holes not sure. The 1st or aft opening is block by the crane on the second photo, so you see only 1 long opening.
Intrepid
Major
The third wire also serves the barricade, therefore it may be a little bit different.
lcloo
Captain
In between the flight deck and the hangar, there is another deck on which there are many rooms for different purposes. Some of these room have machinery. They need to open up sections of the top deck in order to install these machines. there are many detachable deck plates, not just 2 or 4, and not just only for arresting wires or barricade nets, there are also many other machines in different rooms.
Note the deck just below flight deck of this USN aircraft carrier.
Intrepid
Major
An other example: the gallery deck of CV 60 Saratoga with two rooms with two Mk.7 arresting engines each:
You may imagine: the people that are living next to those machinery spaces can not sleep as long as flight operations are in progress. Therefore two carriers is the minimum for longlasting 24/7-operations, one on duty and one on rest.
You may imagine: the people that are living next to those machinery spaces can not sleep as long as flight operations are in progress. Therefore two carriers is the minimum for longlasting 24/7-operations, one on duty and one on rest.
The crew spaces between the roof of the hanger and flight deck is also an most dangerous place to be. Large portion of the onboard casualties suffered by all US carriers since the end of WWII were occurred in these spaces when fire cooked off ammunition on the flight deck Above. If you are actually on the flight deck, you know to keep your distance, take cover or run If fire engulfs armed aircraft. If you are just below flight deck, you often don’t know until the munition cooks off And blows holes in the flight deck, which can occur 60-90 seconds after the fire starts.
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Seems to be a previous photo，Heard that a canopy has been removedOne more... Date unknown.
First EMALS should be finished, there is a closed door and the other two should be still underway