Uk F4 Phantoms being tested on HMS Eagle 1969

[Surpmil]

I hope that in designing the QE they put more thought into the flight deck than we did with the America class ships. The F 35B and Osprey V-22 engines run very hot (unlike the cool Pegasus in the Harrier) and are damaging the deck surface. A little like some of the early jets and downward exhaust (also running on Petrol). Right now the number of flight ops are reduced but the USN says that the newer ships will be fine. I'm not sure but I think the Soviet Kirovs had a tile surface for the Forger VTOL and did not have the damage we are seeing here.

Good luck to you all.

Dave

Maybe some pop-up high pressure sprinklers are in order? Sounds pretty time consuming to replace. https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=51351

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[Gil Boyd]

Reading that blurb about refurbishng the decks everytime they reach so many landings and take offs and before each operational deployment, surely, with the amount of manmade impregnable surfaces we have on the planet some alternative on balance of cost, could be used as a "one off" surface.

Yes it would be highly expensive, but it sounds like a new surface is a regular thing, and surely a thing of the past.

Thats an ex Army man speaking..................so what do I know. I am sure there will be a knowledgeble Jack Tar out there on ether side of the pond who knows the reason!!

[Flying10uk]

Maybe some pop-up high pressure sprinklers are in order?

Our last Invincible class carriers already had these ,"Pre-Wetting", intended to wash nuclear "fallout" from the ship. Presumably the new carriers have been fitted with them as a matter of course.