The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is the surface on which its aircraft take off and land, essentially a miniature airfield at sea. On smaller naval...

An armoured flight deck is an aircraft carrier flight deck that incorporates substantial armour in its design. Comparison is often made between the carrier...

A Federal Flight Deck Officer (FFDO) is an airline pilot who is trained and licensed to carry weapons and defend commercial aircraft against criminal...

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...

strike, which Flavell supported and Key opposed. Both of Key's flight deck crew on Flight 548 witnessed the altercation, and another bystander described...

warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and hangar facilities for supporting, arming, deploying and recovering...

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...

The flight-deck cruiser was a proposed type of aircraft cruiser, (warships combining features of aircraft carriers and light cruisers), designed by the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

position ("spot") their reserve planes on the flight deck for launch. The few aircraft on the Japanese flight decks at the time of the attack were either defensive...

The different flight deck crews wear colored jerseys to visually distinguish their functions. Everyone associated with the flight deck has a specific...

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...

an automatic emergency measure to make up for the lack of air. On the flight deck, however, Greaves's mask was broken; the delivery tube had detached from...

Fair's purchase of the park in 2006, the ride was eventually renamed Flight Deck for the 2008 season. In 2014, it was renamed again to The Bat to pay...

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...

commissioned, the Forrestal-class ships had the roomiest hangar decks and largest flight decks of any carrier ever built. Because of their immense size they...

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...

total of three crew members in the flight deck. All were inexperienced with the aircraft type: The captain of the flight was 38-year-old Mohammed Khowyter...

carriers). Midway received an enclosed hurricane bow, an aft deck-edge elevator, an angled flight deck, and steam catapults, before returning to service on 30...

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)...

increasing her top speed, improving her exhaust systems, and adapting her flight decks to accommodate more modern, heavier aircraft. The ship figured prominently...

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...

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...

the time needed for studying the effects of air turbulence over the flight deck from an island superstructure; problems the Germans were encountering...

of fixed-wing aircraft in 1903 was followed in 1910 by the first flight from the deck of a US Navy cruiser. Seaplanes and seaplane tender support ships...

group. The ship's flight deck was 866 feet 2 inches (264.01 m) long and had a maximum width of 105 feet 11 inches (32.28 m). Her flight deck was widened forward...