Talk:Saratoga/@comment-24611477-20161122034522/@comment-67.11.151.121-20161122204729

They were smoking the idea the our planes are bi planes or other light weight craft that need little take off. That's why some early british carriers had two flight decks. So why not fly off more at once quickly. So not a bad idea for the time, some American designers just had more foresight is all.

That said Akagi and Kaga had one deck that could only operate biplane fighters, and the 8 inch guns got in the way too I believe. So the triple deck idea was not done well in any sense.