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The 'adaptable' CVF design was fitted with a very large hanger deck - the hanger length was about 180m and width 36m, giving a useable area of about 6480 m2 - roughly three times that of the current Invincible Class carriers and apparently enough to accommodate up to 24 F-35B's plus 6 EH-101 Merlin size helicopters, or any equivalent mix. It was stated before the January 2003 down-select that the clear height of the hanger would be 7-10m, the higher figure being assumed to apply only to a small maintenance bay area., but Thales later claimed that the entire hanger deck of their design was high enough (10m?) to ensure that any aircraft embarked could be maintained anywhere, eliminating the need to move airframes around during maintenance. 10m would have given the CVF's the highest hangers ever fitted to any aircraft carrier. The optimised CVF design had a smaller hanger, sized for up to 20 aircraft and helicopters, and also the height was reduced by several metres. Presumably the latest 'equilibrium' iteration of the CVF design falls in between the two previous concepts in terms of area, although it probably has the reduced height of the optimised design.

 

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