Reference the deck layouts in post 3321.
Are we convinced that the deck run for a STOVL jet will be the same as the C model on the cat? (Yeah - I know, ramp, blah, runway in the sky, blah...but are the two really equal?)
At any given weight?
Also, how much of the deck behind a STOVL jet is useable? You can pretty much do what you want behind a Jet Blast Deflector which of course the STOVL design won't have.
Anyone know if you can go up the ramp in after burner or is there a maximum end speed issue as there was in the Harrier? Will this also limit deck run - or AUW - as per Harrier?
Lastly. In the CV design shouldn't the wires be perpendicular across the Landing Area? They seem to be raked.
Perhaps the picture should be simply called: "Oh dear, oh dear, a study of what might have been."