Thank you for your very helpful information. I'd like to follow up on the comments:
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"On your "landing Spots", you leave no space ahead of the landing area into which to move, forward of the barrier, after a landing plane has been brought to a stop,"Very good point. Shows that I'm a novice when it comes to aircraft carriers.
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On the "Take-off Spot" I have never seen aircraft spotted in the take-off roll area, in other words ahead of the point where the take-off roll starts."
I see your point. Doing so would be dangerous. I based the spotting on a
Critical Past video that I watched, where a Dauntless was taking off past two other similar craft. Below is a link to a screen grab from the video; I tried to locate the clip again to provide a link but couldn't find it.
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those letters disappeared pre-war and would not have been present at Midway"
Thanks! I was working off the original blueprints and didn't realize the letters were removed. I'll fix that.
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VF-3 had been increased to 27 wildcats, just like the squadrons on Hornet and Enterprise. However, a deck landing accident, when the group came aboard, cost the squadron 2 aircraft (and the XO). You should adjust your numbers accordingly."
Here is one place (of many, apparently) where I need help. In my initial post, I ask how many aircraft would have been stored below, on the hanger deck. When set up for landings, how many of each type of craft (on the Yorktown) might typically have been on the flight deck, versus on the hanger deck?
Can anyone point me to photos of the actual Yorktown or models of the carrier that show what a typically spotting during landings (and takeoffs too, for that matter) might look like? On the carrier model I'm creating, the parked aircraft are static and cannot be moved once the model is published; that's why I have different models for takeoffs and landings.
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[i]Yeah, your deck markings are more interpretive than factual; it also looks like you put Hornet's Doolittle Raid deck markings down.[/i]"
Are you referring to the two lines running most of the length of the carrier? If so, I certainly will remove them from this model. Can you point out any other non-factual markings? The goal is to try to make the model as realistic as possible.
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There really wasn't a set "landing configuration" as the aircraft landed largely in the order they arrived. They would do some deck spotting by type, but not the way you have it depicted. As soon as the landing evolution finished they would start running the aircraft back to the stern and re-spotting for launch."
That certainly makes sense. For our purposes, let's assume that what is being depicted in the landing model is what the spotting would look like part way through the landing evolution. It sounds like you're saying the aircraft would not be as neatly placed as I have them. Again, any links to photos, drawings, etc. of what the deck would look like in the middle of landing would be greatly appreciated. Same for takeoff too.
Any more comments?
Bill