Starting with a Heinkel seaplane purchased from Germany in 1923, Japan rapidly progressed to the I-7 and I-8, the first Japanese subs built from scratch with a catapult and water tight deck hanger.
Purpose-built to launch a surprise aerial attack against New York City and Washington, D.C, each sub could travel one and a half times around the world without refueling, and carried three Aichi M6A1 attack planes in a water tight deck hangar (see photo below).
As a result, the Regulus missile program, which launched nuclear-tipped missiles from a surfaced sub's water-tight deck hangar (see photos below), owes a debt to the I-400s.
And so I sat tight on the deck on the way into Batsfjord, engrossed by huge striped sandstone cliffs that had been molded and folded by the movement of the ages.
As we approached the airport, the lush vastness of green quickly changed to a muted multicolored rainbow of buildings packed together tighter than a deck of cards.
The crew — three neophytes and an experienced first mate — studied the boat's deck, a tight and organized chaos of pulleys, sheets, cams, winches, clips and cables.
Whatever the origin, it may be moot — the snacking, on-the-go, one-handed behaviors of mobile users today seem to indicate that, for now, a one-thumb navigable card is the interface of choice, and until the next designer invents that new atomic unit and corresponding gestures to go along with it, we will have to sit tight and keep shuffling the deck.
In February, Boeing showed the Navy how its drone could be steered through the tight confines of a carrier deck.
To prepare the ship for her lengthy voyage to Peru around Cape Horn, Swift & Co. added a breakwater on the bow, stepped two masts with a fore-and-aft rig to supplement her engine, and provided closures to make vents and deck openings water tight.
Use a pry bar to raise the lattice frame so it will be tight against the porch or deck.
Hauling up to 8,500 vehicles in a layer cake of 13 decks packed as tight as the Tokyo subway at rush hour, these ships do one basic task very well — delivering vehicles, from tiny compacts to enormous excavators, unscathed to destinations like the port here.
