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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

Fixed wing Carrier Flight Ops

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

helo/VSTOL

Aircraft Maintenance

O-level
I-level

Ship's Propulsion

Nuclear Reactor
Steam Plant

Ship Handling

Navigation
Sea and Anchor

Replenishment

UNREP
VerRep

Ships Misc Services

Medical/Dental
Recreation
Chow
Berthing
Postal
Stores

...E2a2j (talk) 02:48, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merged

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?

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?

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?

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]