Nimitz co flies high again.JO1 Todd Hack According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Nimitz (CVN (Card Verification Number) See CSC. 68) skipper Capt. Steve F. Firks, during the mid-1990s the decision was made not to allow carrier COs to fly off their ships. "The reasoning was that COs did not need to fly for morale," he said. About 18 months ago, the policy was changed to allow commanding officers to fly again. Capt. Firks has been in and out of the cockpit for over 25 years, but recently that wasn't the most pressing thing on his mind. He was so busy with other tasks that he had to let his qualifications expire. So, during a few days in October 2001, the skipper logged 20 traps in a Strike Fighter A strike fighter is a fighter aircraft which is also capable of attacking surface targets, including ships. It differs from an attack aircraft in that the aircraft remains a capable fighter. Squadron 203 F/A-18 Hornet The McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) F/A-18 Hornet is a modern all-weather carrier-capable strike fighter jet, designed to attack both ground and aerial targets. Designed in the 1970s for service with the U.S. Navy and U.S. . He said the "rush" from flying the aircraft is almost as powerful as commanding a huge warship warship, any ship built or armed for naval combat. The forerunners of the modern warship were the men-of-war of the 18th and early 19th cent., such as the ship of the line, frigate, corvette, sloop of war (see sloop), brig, and cutter. like Nimitz, but he knows his first priority is to the ship and its crew. "It was impressive flying in the landing pattern, looking down on the ship and having a much better understanding of what goes into getting everything moving. This ship has a lot of moving parts and they all have to line up the right way to make airplanes fly and land," he emphasized. |
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