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flight deck
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flight deck
n.
1. The upper deck of an aircraft carrier, used as a runway.
2. An elevated compartment in certain aircraft, used by the pilot, copilot, and flight engineer.

flight deck
n
1. (Engineering / Aeronautics) the crew compartment in an airliner Compare cockpit [1]
2. (Transport / Nautical Terms) the upper deck of an aircraft carrier from which aircraft take off and on which they land

1. In certain airplanes, an elevated compartment occupied by the crew for operating the airplane in flight.
2. The upper deck of an aircraft carrier that serves as a runway.
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Noun1.flight deck - the upper deck of an aircraft carrierflight deck - the upper deck of an aircraft carrier; used as a runway
aircraft carrier, attack aircraft carrier, flattop, carrier - a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
deck - any of various platforms built into a vessel
Translations
flight deck n (on aircraft carrier) → ponte m di volo; (of aeroplane) → cabina di pilotaggio


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The Indian ship will operate twelve MiG-29 mixed role aircraft and half-a-dozen 'Helix' and, like the Admiral Kuznetsov, will feature an angled flight deck with arrester wires to recover the fixed-wing aircraft.
Before the days of modern angled flight decks, a carrier flight deck could be doing only one of three things: spotting aircraft, launching aircraft, or recovering aircraft.
ACCORDING to the book "80 Years of the British Aircraft Carrier" by Frank Ott and Maurice Biggs, trials of an angled flight deck were conducted on HMS Triumph but HMS Centaur was the first carrier to be formally equipped with this development.
 
 
 
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