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flight deck

Noun

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the upper deck of an aircraft carrier; used as a runway

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My job during the EVAs, the spacewalks, is to act as the inside coordinator. I remain on the aft flight deck of the shuttle, and I act in a manner to help the gentlemen outside, my fellow crewmates, who are performing the EVA tasks. Alan G. Poindexter

1998 to 2008 (Forward Deployed: Yokosuka, Japan) Kitty Hawk (right) relieves USS at Pearl Harbor as the 7th Fleet forward deployed carrier A navy petty officer supervises sailors performing a flight deck scrub down on board Kitty Hawk in August 2005. Source: Internet

A naval helicopter taking off from an RSN frigate flight deck to conduct anti-submarine operations during Exercise RIMPAC in Hawaii. Source: Internet

A hangar storage several decks below the flight deck is where most aircraft are kept, and aircraft are taken from the lower storage decks to the flight deck through the use of an elevator. Source: Internet

Astronaut Doug Hurley, STS-127 pilot, is pictured at space shuttle Endeavour’s aft flight deck controls during flight day five operations with hardware on the International Space Station, July 19, 2009. Source: Internet

A new flight deck based on the 777's would be used. Source: Internet

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