How does an aircraft carrier carry 60 planes?

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The most I see is about 30, and that itself fills up most of the deck. But they are stated to have capacity for 50, 60, or even 70 aircraft. How so?

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The inside of the ship also has maintenance and storage decks for storing additional aircraft. Here’s an example picture of that – https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-9c1948b43831477d47ae1a68c40c065a-c

They have elevators that they use to move the planes up to the flight deck or down to the storage deck.

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