Deck Drawings
Whether it's a single letter or a 100-foot greeting, aircraft carrier crews stand ready to spell it out.
- By Roger Mola
- AirSpaceMag.com, May 27, 2011
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In July 1959, the USS Ranger arrives in San Francisco with a message and a symbol, which crew members recall as either a dove or a Naval aviator's wings of gold.
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Regarding deck drawings -- USS Ranger CV-61. When was this photo taken? My son was assigned and did duty on this ship during Desert Storm - 1991 and returned to San Diego. He doesn't recall this event. Please advise and thank you in advance. JDL
Posted by John Lucas on June 10,2011 | 02:07 PM
The Navy archive says that the original photo by Navy PH2 Wimmer was dated December 1, 1988, but may have been taken about a year earlier.
Posted by Roger Mola on June 16,2011 | 10:45 AM
Maybe I missed it in your collection of Deck Drawings, but I didn't see one of my favorites: the crew of the Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) spelling out "Big Stick."
I am pretty sure that "Big Stick" is a perfect description of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. Is that picture available?
Thanks.
Posted by Tim Colman on July 1,2011 | 03:48 PM
Thanks for your note. The "Big Stick" photo from September of 1999 is floating around the Internet and easy to find, and you're right, it's a great shot (especially since many schools no longer teach the cursive-style letters the crew used to spell it out). We collected dozens of images and it was tough to choose which to post. --Roger Mola, Researcher, Air & Space magazine
Posted by Roger Mola on July 7,2011 | 04:03 PM
There was a very famous article in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC in the Sixties profiling the Enterprise's around-the-world cruise. The "centerfold" was the aerial view of the ship with the sailors spelling out E=MC2 on the flight deck.
Posted by Stephen on February 25,2013 | 04:17 PM