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,....,..,.m,,. . - A.. ,.- , E sag 'X ff 'f 124 li . . . l used to go up on the flight deck sometimes and watch the airdales push their planes around. They had quite a system worked out. The problem was obvious: the hangar deck wasn't big enough for all the planes. So when the planes in the air were to be landed,ithe ones on the flight deck were pushd all the way forward and when they were catapulting the planes off, all the extra planes were aft be- ing warmed up. Actually it was a lot of fun chiding the flyboys. When the planes weren't flying, the plane pushers spent most of their time down in their compartment racked out. Still l secretly didn't envy them much when we were doing day and night flying. Down in my rack l'd hear the thump of a landing plane and the exhaust of air from the arresting gear machines, feel half sorry for them, and turn over and go back to sleep again. l guess the night landings weren't much fun for anyone: the pilots, the crews, or the .plane handlers. A couple of times I sneaked up on the back of the bridge to watch the night landings. At the after end
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of the flight deck I could see the LSO's lights: then the wing lights 'ot the plane would come in view and the ex- haust came closer, closer, until they seemed almost to strike the island. Then the LSO's lights would come down and the plane would drop. Number two wire, s-omeone said in Pri-fly, Not bad! The air department was every- where during night hops. Down in the catapult rooms and the elevator machinery ro-oms they'd be adjusting the equipment. In the machine shop and the electronics shop they'd be drinking cottee. And in the Island they'd be plan- ning the next spotting or logging the planes otf and -on. They were everywhere: in green sweaters, red sweaters, blue, yellow, brown, up and down the catwalks, yanking out hoses or pushing arresting gear levers. Down on the hangar deck were the down planes, with men trying to .put them back together again. And all I could think of doing was yawning and hitting the sack again. Reveille was at 0630. . . Commander C. A. Leonard, Jr Air Officer we ' E41 ,nm I f ' I I... W V. zfzp 3 ,' air
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