Talk:Modern United States Navy carrier air operations

Latest comment: 1 year ago by Navywings in topic Launch officer pit?

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Rename article to Modern United States Navy carrier operations?--mrg3105 (comms) ♠01:39, 24 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Considering how best to organize all this ship/airplane combo stuff...

US Aircraft Carrier Operations

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Fixed wing Carrier Flight Ops

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  • Flight Deck
  • Flight Deck Personnel
  • Flight Deck Technology (Cats, Arresting gear, ski jumps, landing aids
  • Deck, departure, recovery procedures

helo/VSTOL

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Aircraft Maintenance

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  • O-level
  • I-level

Ship's Propulsion

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  • Nuclear Reactor
  • Steam Plant

Ship Handling

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  • Navigation
  • Sea and Anchor

Replenishment

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  • UNREP
  • VerRep

Ships Misc Services

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  • Medical/Dental
  • Recreation
  • Chow
  • Berthing
  • Postal
  • Stores

...E2a2j (talk) 02:48, 26 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Merged

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Material from Aircraft Director has been incorporated into this article (under Key Personnel).E2a2j (talk) 01:10, 28 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

What am I missing?

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In the Recovery Types, CASE I section it says "Aircraft awaiting recovery hold in the “port holding pattern”, a left-hand circle tangent to the ship’s course with the ship in the 3-o’clock position." Shouldn't that be 9 o-clock? Kaiwhakahaere (talk) 00:54, 20 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Changed it. Kaiwhakahaere (talk) 19:54, 21 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Can someone match the colour of the shirt with the rating?

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Like Yellow Shirt is what rating?

Thanks.Cantab1985 (talk) 09:41, 12 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

Yellow: Those that are involved with aircraft movement, FLY1-3, Handler, Shooters etc
White: Safety or Supervisors. Also Paddles/LSO (pilots assisting in landings)
Green: Arresting gear and troubleshooters
Purple: (called grapes) Aviation Fuels
Red: Ordnance
Brown: Plane captains
Blue: Chock and chains Navywings (talk) 18:32, 13 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

Launch officer pit?

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I came across this public domain photo that I think would make a good addition to the article, but am not knowledgeable enough about carrier operations to accurately describe it. From some Googling, it seems like this is the station for the "launch officer" - though I'm not sure if this is the same as what our article describes as the catapult officer. Anyone have a better description of what I'm looking at, and ideally what the real term for the structure is, in order to get some better Google results? MarginalCost (talk) 03:43, 30 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

SO that is referred to as "the bubble." It's where the Shooter (Launch officer or catapult launch officer as is the proper term) launches the aircraft from in inclement weather. Otherwise it's done on deck. I was a shooter on the last aircraft carrier (CV-63) that did not have one. The Kitty Hawk has since been decommissioned so now all US aircraft carriers in service have one. I never had the opportunity to launch from one though. I did it like real men did lol. Navywings (talk) 18:37, 13 April 2023 (UTC)Reply