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If done while she was building, sure.However, trying to do that after she completed would require a long drydock period while a large portion of her starboard hull was removed in order to make the structure changes needed to keep up her hull girder strength (see my post #140 for comments on what was required).Yes, this would be further aft and less vulnerable than her historic deck-edge lift, but it would still require a massive amount of work.The USN got away with that on the Essex and Midway class modernizations because the hangar deck was the strength deck in USN design, and therefore moving an aircraft lift to deck-edge made little difference to the ship's hull strength.
If done while she was building, sure.
However, trying to do that after she completed would require a long drydock period while a large portion of her starboard hull was removed in order to make the structure changes needed to keep up her hull girder strength (see my post #140 for comments on what was required).
Yes, this would be further aft and less vulnerable than her historic deck-edge lift, but it would still require a massive amount of work.
The USN got away with that on the Essex and Midway class modernizations because the hangar deck was the strength deck in USN design, and therefore moving an aircraft lift to deck-edge made little difference to the ship's hull strength.
