Deck-edge outriggers create parking space and fire separation

An audience comparison with USS Ranger leads to Royal Navy armoured carriers and several other wartime ships that used deck-edge outriggers. By supporting part of a parked aircraft beyond the main flight-deck edge, the fittings made crowded deck space more usable. A wartime photograph shows an aircraft on an outrigger remaining clear of a fire burning elsewhere on the carrier. The image turns a small deck-handling feature into a lesson about how layout could affect both operating capacity and the survival of parked aircraft.