ChrisReid
Super Soaker Collector / Administrator
Delance said:Fine, but then why modern post-war carrier don't use this design?
Similar reasons to why not all old war-era and pre-war designs didn't. It's just one way of designing a carrier. Since you don't absolutely need the space to land a fighter, it's not an automatic requirement. Maybe advances in automatic landing technologies make it less of an issue. Maybe the Midway decks go a lot more deeper than it seems. Maybe the two hangars are sufficiently independent and isolated to negate other risks. The inclusion or omission of the runway seems to be heavily dependent on the positioning of the flight deck to begin with, which is a core decision when designing the hull. Maybe designing the Midway in such a way that it improved some things, made other things such as a runway less practical. We have no one answer.