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Old 2nd Jun 2015, 22:42
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Not_a_boffin
 
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When the thoughts around an angled deck on the QECs to enable recovery with arrestor gear versus a 'through deck' design, was there the option to run a bastardised variant with an angled deck for SSL recovery and a through deck launch with a ski jump?

This would seem to offer the best of both worlds; however I am not blind to the fact that there would have been some other loss of capacity - even if this was a reduction of on-deck standing for the cabs.
Your angle plus through deck is actually the worst of both worlds in terms of safe parking area. See the three STOBAR ships for details - big flight decks, very little parking area.

The point of an angled deck is to allow a CTOL recovery that misses the wires - a bolter - the ability to go around and try again. Happy to be corrected but I very much doubt whether an SRVL/SSL will be able to wind up sufficient thrust to do so. In which case the angle serves only to dump the cab over the side......
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