How jet trials might have reshaped Malta's lifts

The alternative arrangement shown in the video retains two centreline lifts and adds deck-edge handling, whose open side could accommodate an aircraft longer than the platform itself. A Malta completed after the war probably would not have preserved its 1945 configuration unchanged. Construction might instead have paused while the Royal Navy conducted its historical late-1940s jet trials and learned what larger, faster aircraft required. An early-1950s completion with three deck-edge lifts, perhaps two to port and one to starboard or the reverse, is offered only as a possible outcome. The carrier is best understood as an evolving design rather than a single frozen drawing.