While visiting the ship's
hangar deck, flight deck, machine shop and living quarters, Champion met former high school debate team members and auto-shop students who have found a home in the Navy and made it a career.
After travelling by train from London Waterloo, the Queen used a specially installed lift to take her up to the ship's
hangar deck, where she addressed 3,700 guests, who included the crews' families.
INS Viraat/HMS Hermes, in port in India; and, right, Marines assemble on the
hangar deck of HMS Hermes during the Falklands conflict
The flight deck,
hangar deck and second deck are open for tours on your own.
Key differences between the new LHA(R) Flight 0 and the LHD class ships include the deletion of the well deck, an enlarged
hangar deck with enhanced aviation maintenance facilities for Bell/Boeing MV-22 Ospreys and Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning IIs, increased cargo stowage and aviation fuel, in addition to an electronically configurable C4ISR (Command, Control, Communication, Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) suite.
The premiere was on the flight deck and the party was on the
hangar deck."
Caption: Ordnancetnen arm planes on the
hangar deck of the USS Yorktown (CV 10), while in the background off duty Sailors watch a movie.
The use cases include business support systems, medical use, flight line,
hangar deck and other afloat, airborne and ground tactical arenas.
During the Annual UL Event you'll enjoy a tour of the historic aircraft carrier, a delicious catered dinner on the
hangar deck, and other entertaining features such as private access to the flight deck to tour at your leisure.
With several compartments completely wrecked and four of his five comrades killed, he, regaining consciousness, groped his way through the burning and tangled wreckage to a point under an open
hangar deck hatch.