Originally Posted by
Not_a_boffin
Nope. The flex deck was to reduce aircraft weight by removing the need for carrier capable undercarriage.
The lack of bulbous bow (although there is some novel form there) is probably down to Mr Froude.
A bulb doesn't lift the bow, if anything it damps pitch motion.
The flexible deck experiment contributed to the invention of the angled flight deck by Captain Dennis Campbell. As for the bulb - surely reducing pitch motion aids flying operations?