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This pod contains a 25 man life raft along with lots of
supplies and equipment inside.
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Here you can see containers of food, water and other
items.
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Here is the flight deck or as the crewmen would call it,
the roof. The flight deck is 3 1/2" thick of armor plate, is over 4
acres in size, 55 feet above the water and is made up of 190,000 pieces.
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This is the rear of the ship and those nets would be
your best friend if you were to fall.
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Here is an F-14 Tomcat (the movie Top Gun) which is
dated now but is still one bad ass aircraft.
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Notice the wings are not extended, which makes for
more room and is how most aircraft are made that are on aircraft
carriers.
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Here is an F-18 Hornet, which is easy to spot with the two angled
verticals compared to the F-14 or F-15 that are both straight up and
down.
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Every aircraft or important item on the Midway has a sign telling you
about it, but it gets better. The colored numbers are for your self
guided audio system if you want to know even more. All you do is type in
the number and you can here all about it and sometimes by the person who
flew it or had something to do with it. Very cool.
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An F-4 Wildcat which began service with both the
United States Navy and the British Royal Navy in 1940.
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