Corrected entry: When you see the carrier from above, you can see that the planes take up more than half the deck space. If there were 420 feet of space to take off, that would mean that the carrier was at least 840 feet long. They were at most around 650-700 feet.
Jacob La Cour
14th Jan 2007
Correction: USS Hornet CV-8 was 824 feet long.