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Old 13th Mar 2016, 23:51
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Many -most? - of Winkle Brown's traps would not have had the 'luxury' of an angled flight deck. An angled flight deck gives the pilot an option to bolt when a landing goes wrong. Images of early carrier operations with a straight flight deck are chilling - miss a wire (probably the wire) and the aircraft collides with the barrier net which hopefully was enough to stop a fiery crash into the aircraft stored on deck at the bow.
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