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Re: To ladder or turbolift?
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lugnet.space
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Fri, 23 Feb 2001 19:24:08 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Eric Joslin writes:
> > Two weeks ago I visited the USS Lexington Aircraft Carrier
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> Ugh, that means you were in Corpus Christi. I'm sorry. :P
Don't be! ;^0 I enjoy Corpus!
> Eh, I was under the impression it was more for moving pilots to the flight deck
> in a timely fashion...
I confess that I made an assumption that the escalator would be for the command
because, if I remember correctly, the escalator was reached almost immediately
after leaving the war room (which was in turn directly below the bridge level.)
> I toured the Lex with my father, who served aboard two carriers of the same
> class (the Ticonderoga and the Kearsarge) and he had more than one amusing
> story about the escalators, so they were at the very least a "feature" that
> crossed the class of ship as far back as the 60's and 70's (I dn't know the
> exact dates of my father's tours on those vessels).
The escalators just seemed a little bit incongruous. After winding our way up
tight passageways and stooping under bulkheads, it just seemed a bit odd to come
across an escalator. Sure it's wasn't just meant to hurry the captain his
dinner?
james
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| (...) Masochist. (...) Ah. I think the "war room" you're referring to is the pilot's briefing room, isn't it? And the other end of the escalator lets out onto the flight deck? I'm genuinely asking, here... it has been a bit longer since I've been on (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) Ugh, that means you were in Corpus Christi. I'm sorry. :P (...) Eh, I was under the impression it was more for moving pilots to the flight deck in a timely fashion... (...) I toured the Lex with my father, who served aboard two carriers of the (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.space)
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