How Navy Pilots Revolutionized Carrier Landings — and Doubled U.S. Naval Power

Learn how a simple 8-degree adjustment transformed the course of naval warfare. In 1951, a U.S. Navy test pilot demonstrated that an angled carrier deck could double a fleet’s striking power by allowing aircraft to launch and land at the same time—solving the dangerous “deck cycle” issue that crippled WWII carriers. First tested with nothing more than paint on the USS Midway, this breakthrough proved itself in the skies over Korea and soon became the defining feature of every carrier built thereafter. From the chaos of Pearl Harbor and Midway to the precision of modern supercarriers like the USS Gerald R. Ford, the angled deck erased carrier aviation’s deadliest flaw and gave the U.S. Navy unmatched dominance at sea for more than seven decades.

🎯 Topics Covered:

The hidden weakness of WWII straight-deck carriers

How deck congestion doomed Japan’s carriers at Midway

Britain’s early angled-deck experiments (1943–44)

Commander Boone’s groundbreaking geometric insight (1951)

The engineering feat of converting entire carrier fleets

Combat proof: USS Antietam’s 89% sortie increase in Korea

Forrestal-class supercarriers and the Cold War era

Why every carrier today still follows the 1951 design

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