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Landing Deck

Definition: Landing Deck

Landing Deck

Noun

1. The upper deck of an aircraft carrier; used as a runway.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Landing Deck

Synonym: flight deck (n). (additional references)

Photo Album: Landing Deck

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	The Landing Signal Officer, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Ronald E. Braley, signals to the pilot of a Kaman UH-2 "Seasprite" helicopter, as crewmen tie it to the ship's landing deck, July 1969. Credit: NAVY.		Photographed during the 1960s, following her "FRAM II" modernization. She is carrying an odd antenna on her helicopter landing deck. Credit: NAVY.
	At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, in January 1911, after she had been fitted with a temporary wooden deck in preparation for Eugene Ely's airplane landing attempt. Ely landed his Curtiss pusher biplane on board the ship on 18 January, the first airplane landing on a warship. The landing deck, 120 feet long and 30 feet wide, was inclined slightly to help slow the plane as it landed, and had a thirty-degree ramp at its after end. Credit: NAVY.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Anagrams: Landing Deck

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-g-i-k-l-n-n"
	-3 letters: candling, cladding, clanking, cleaning, dandling, enlacing, kneading, ladening.
	-4 letters: addling, aligned, aneling, angelic, anglice, ankling, annelid, calking, candied, candled, clanged, clanked, clinged, clinked, dancing, dangled, dealing, deaning, decking, eanling, encinal, galenic, gladden, glanced, incaged, inlaced, kindled, lacking, lancing, landing, leading, leaking, leaning, lending, lindane, linkage, necking, nickled.
	-5 letters: adding, alined, alkine, angled, ankled.
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Alternative Orthography: Landing Deck

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 61 6E 64 69 6E 67 44 65 63 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100001 01101110 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01000100 01100101 01100011 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#97 &#110 &#100 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#68 &#101 &#99 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0061 006E 0064 0069 006E 0067 0044 0065 0063 006B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46678070758073238716977

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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