Interesting. I would have never guessed he uses the top as a "landing strip".
So they come in there & then are lowered through the ship on elevators to the main hold.
Then launch from the wings.
Very interesting.
Interesting indeed. A pet on-and-off again project I've been working on in my spare time the last couple weeks is drawing out deck plans for the Vengeance class. A key problem that's required resolving is how much volume a launching mechanism actually requires, which in turn requires figuring out how large ASFs actually are. This in turn is very challenging given the long-enshrined artwork for launch doors on Leopards, Unions, and Overlords coupled with the very disparate silhouettes of ASFs (dart like Corsairs and Stukas vs Boomerang like Shilones and Rievers go out the exact same launch tubes...)
I've got a few reasons why I don't like the idea of the Gorgon class launching fighters frontally out of its wing pods, but I'm some random dude on the internet and the guy who drew the art says that's how he thinks it goes. But for what it's worth, I saw the Vengeance and Gorgon both recovering ASFs inside those hollow wingpods basically akin to the Battlestar Galactica model. But not so much
launching from them, as firing ASFs out of the dropship along its path of travel is just asking for the ASF to crash back into the DropShip should it have an engine failure. But of course if the Gorgon has a belly drive then firing towards the nose would be perpendicular to the path of DropShip's travel, which would then be ideal.
However the idea of landing on the exterior of the dropship's hull like some space-borne aircraft carrier
is a neat idea that warrants some thought for my Vengeance deckplans project.