The carrier's hangar and deck arrangements aim to protect and organize aircraft with exceptional precision, including reducing the chance of storm damage as aircraft move across the deck. The proposed system is unnecessarily hard to build for the improvement it offers. The trade is framed as roughly a thousandfold increase in complexity for perhaps a ten-percent advantage. Simpler deck handling and tying aircraft down would sacrifice elegance while making completion more achievable.
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Graf Zeppelin's elegant but overcomplicated aviation system
Graf Zeppelin's elaborate aircraft-handling arrangements promise orderly operations but add far more complexity than their marginal benefit justifies.