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Re: To ladder or turbolift?
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lugnet.space
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Fri, 23 Feb 2001 19:37:42 GMT
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In lugnet.space, James Simpson writes:
> In lugnet.space, Eric Joslin writes:
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> > > 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
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> Don't be! ;^0 I enjoy Corpus!
Masochist.
> > Eh, I was under the impression it was more for moving pilots to the flight
> > deck
> > in a timely fashion...
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> 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.)
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 the
Lexington that you have (a couple years as opposed to a couple weeks).
> > 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 don't know the
> > exact dates of my father's tours on those vessels).
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> 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.
That's true, it is weird. I hadn't ever seen anything like it before, and I've
been on a good number of USN vessels.
> Sure it's wasn't just meant to hurry the captain his
> dinner?
No one's in a hurry to get Navy chow. I promise. If you see people running to
the Officer's Clubs on base, it's not for the food. :D
eric
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| (...) Doh! I walked right into that one. (...) You're no doubt right that it was the pilot briefing room...as uneducated Joe Tourist, it just didn't strike me as a pilot briefing room. I guess I've seen too many movies, but there wasn't the (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) Don't be! ;^0 I enjoy Corpus! (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.space)
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