CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread

Richard Santos

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what are the two athwart ship openings on the flight deck abreast and just abaft the aft elevators? They are not perpendicular to the landing axis, which suggest they are not for arrester cable mechanism.
 

para80

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what are the two athwart ship openings on the flight deck abreast and just abaft the aft elevators? They are not perpendicular to the landing axis, which suggest they are not for arrester cable mechanism.
They almost look like access ramps to the lower deck/flight deck. In some earlier imagery they can be seen but closed.E_8fhLUVEAIBIYF.jpg
 

taxiya

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We do not know. At the moment there are only two openings for arresting gear installation visible.
I counted three so far. Two openings (marked in yellow) to the aft. One covered (marked in orange) just behind the engine room opening. There is no room for a 4th further to the bow direction. There is no marking between the openings and aft, and it would be too close to the aft to put a wire there, I guess.
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Andy1974

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I think Richards point was that these openings are the wrong angle to be arrestor gear. if we assume they want to land perpendicular to the arrestor gear angle ?
 
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