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The Enterprise gets her angled deck 150c3fa

FEATUREGRAPHICS Top-down view of the USS Enterprise deck: the landing strip now runs diagonally, angled to port of the island

Sharp eyes over the round-down spotted it: the Big E’s deck still wore a straight axial centreline down the middle, which read as the runway. No more — like every real carrier, her runway is now unmistakably the angled deck:

  1. The straight centreline is gone. What remains is the one true runway: the angled landing strip, offset to port so pilots land left of the island — the whole point of the angled deck since 1952.
  2. The strip got the full treatment — bolder edge stripes, bigger centreline dashes, and a threshold bar across the stern end where the pass begins.
  3. Everything still agrees: the arrestor wires, the IFLOLS meatball and the landing aim-point all derive from the same strip geometry, so what you see is exactly what you trap on. Verified from the overhead: strip angles off the ship’s line and passes port of the island, wires square across it.
  4. The printable carrier wears it too — the six-angle shots in the Print Bay were re-taken on the new deck plan.