LIfe on the flight Deck by Chester Hull

It’s the most dangerous four and a half acres on earth. A place where jet blast and prop wash threaten to blow you overboard. Spinning props that are almost invisible threaten to make a sailor disappear. Jet intakes that will suck you inside an engine before you can react. Arresting cables the size of a man’s wrist snap across the deck. And aircraft taking off or landing every 45 seconds. Add a 40 mph steady wind coming down a pitching, wet deck, and you have an environment into which only the bravest would dare to venture.