Thank Dan!
Since I'm stuck finishing the Nomadic's dry dock, I dive back into the Hornet's hangar.
I started the central elevator. This time 3D printing, a technique I didn't have at the time for the front elevator (made with plastic card), is going to enter the dance. It should improve the details and the speed of realization.
So I took out the plans of the CV-5 Yorktown elevator to know how to make this elevator shaft. There are two elevators like in the front and in the back, 1 main one and an auxiliary one which allows to gain surface in the hangar to park planes when the main elevator is at its post on the flight deck.
This is how I will represent it. As the complete flight deck will be removable, it will be integral. We will thus see once the flight deck removed, the auxiliary elevator parked at the level of the hangar deck. When the main elevator is in use, the auxiliary is parked on the second deck which is under the main deck (Hangar deck).
It is interesting to see that there is another rectangular elevator on the starboard side, which allows the torpedoes to be brought up to the flight deck. You can see it well on one of the pictures. I'll have to represent it as I represented the two bomb elevators that are a little further forward.
Tonight I cut out the hangar deck, where the elevator shaft is located, so I can now draw the floor just below it, as well as the auxiliary elevator. Then print it all out in great detail. I don't have any pictures of this little elevator unfortunately, but the plans will do.
A good stroke of the Dremel and off you go!
The torpedo elevator is seen here on the left.