[svandamme]

these supercarriers really are huge.
In Vietnam Era they flew F8 crusaders of the olders 27 Charlie carriers (meaning Essex straight deck with 27 Mod which was the angled deck), the 1 wire was right close to the edge. cross the ramp, yer in the wires. #1 on those was really just a fart away from a ramp strike

In the bigger ones since, there's quite a bit of distance past the deck edge to get to the first wire
But a 1 wire is still terrible and something nobody wants to see on the greenie board (squadron landing score board), the latest carriers only have 3 wires , they did away with the 4th one because the modern fly by wire planes are much easier to land on a specific spot.