The US Navy Starting Building and Cancelled in 5 Days an Aircraft Carrier With No Island at All, and Trump Now Wants to Move the One on the Ford-Class

The USS United States was designed with a massive, completely unobstructed flight deck. The island - the tower structure every carrier has carried since - was removed altogether, because planners feared it would interfere with flight operations involving heavy bombers. Navigation, flight control and exhaust management would all have worked differently from any carrier before or since.