[Milsurplus] Flat top flight deck

[Dave And Merrijoy]

As a non-military person, I find these accounts both very interesting and 
fascinating.  I
hope more can shared from time to time.
Dave w9ocm


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Tauson" <wh7hg.hi at gmail.com>
To: <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 2:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Flat top flight deck


> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Hue Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:
>
>> Interesting goings-on; i'd have been up there too, gawking.
>
> Oh, Hue, you have no idea!
>
> 1964-'65, USS HORNET, CVS-12 ... any chance I got I watched flight
> ops.  It was chaos but a well rehearsed and choreographed chaos in
> probably the most dangerous place in the world to work.  OSHA would
> have a fit about the working conditions but OSHA doesn't have anything
> to say about it.  Getting the planes off and back on the deck safely
> does.
>
> Even when things go wrong - an S2F's wing folding coming off the cat
> ... an A-4 missing the wires and winding up in the ocean because the
> engine burped too ... a man falling into the prop of an idling AD -
> even then, it is a thing of beauty.
>
> I know Robert Downs has seen it as well - different time, different
> ship, different aircraft - and I suspect (read as: hope!) he'll back
> what I'm saying.
>
> Thank you for bringing up those wonderful memories.
>
> Best regqards,
>
> Michael, WH7HG
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