The phrase "aft half" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in nautical contexts to refer to the rear portion of a ship or vessel.
Example: "The crew gathered on the aft half of the ship to enjoy the sunset."
Alternatives: "rear section" or "stern part".
The aft half, meanwhile, is topped with a home-made structure of two-by-fours and clear plastic; down in the engine room, within the sloping riveted-iron hull, sits a collection of nonoperational machinery, including the World War II-surplus Atlas Imperial diesel engine that replaced the original steam engine in the 1940's.
His projected reconstruction would have seen an inclined flight deck erected on the aft half of the ship, tall enough to clear the ships' funnels.
The flooding caused the inboard propellers to stop for want of power and started a large amount of arcing, which itself caused many electrical fires in the aft half of the ship.
When you have the topmost telltale stalled about half the time and streaming aft half the time, you've got it just about perfect.
The slope of the standing ways which are often cambered (slightly curved upward toward the middle or slightly curved downward toward the ends) in the fore and aft direction ranges from one-half to three-quarters of an inch per foot of length (from 42 to 62 millimetres per metre of length); ways extend from a position near the bow to past the stern and for a certain distance into the water.
One design, from 1930, was described as "a light cruiser forwards [and] one half of a aft", and utilized an early version of the angled deck that would in the 1950s be adopted for use by fleet carriers.
The aft section did not begin sinking until half an hour after the collision, completely submerging just after midnight.
Extensive changes to the ship were made in converting her to a seaplane tender, with the superstructure, funnel, and propulsion machinery moved aft and a working deck occupying the forward half of the ship.
–Planes Cessna Citation CJ1+ jet, which comfortably seats up to six aft of cockpit, and on full tanks at 445mph (Mach 0.72) travels half the continental U.S.; Beechcraft King Air B200GT turboprop, which seats eight in luxury aft of cockpit, and on full tanks at 350mph travels 2,000 miles.
The half-aperture, toggled-transmit (toggled-Tx) approach (between fore and aft subapertures), shown in Figure 1(b), has the advantage of maintaining the same phase-center distance (or the along-track baseline) as the standard dual-channel case (Figure 1(a)), which is nominally 3.75 m for RADARSAT-2, and is capable of generating three independent phase centers, shown as down-pointing triangles.
And yet, with a scant half metre on either side, and not much more space fore and aft, the perfect fit serves only to make these "Panamax" ships look out of place.
