Question for the E-2 guys

[vicariousrider]

Ok, so here's a couple of silly questions:
1.) Would that be done from the same pier that a carrier moors do when she pulls into port (meaning would the carrier need to do a berth shift before loading the planes);
2.) How were the aircraft transported to the crane-on/off point?

 

[Nose]

Ozy,

As far as I know, every carrier Pier is near a runway. Norfolk, Mayport, San Diego, Alameda.

The piers are pretty wide and in Norfolk and Mayport, the streets are "Tow Way" streets. Short signs and lights, so you can tow an aircraft past/over them. I would guess that SD, Alameda, and Bremerton are all the same.

 

[2sr2worry]

Ok, so here's a couple of silly questions:
1.) Would that be done from the same pier that a carrier moors do when she pulls into port (meaning would the carrier need to do a berth shift before loading the planes);
2.) How were the aircraft transported to the crane-on/off point?

At North Island, Norfolk, Alameda, and Mayport aircraft can fly in, be towed to the ship with a tow tractor, and craned aboard very easily. You can't perform a similar operation at Everett, Bremerton, or Yokosuka. That's why the PacNorWest boats drop off broken airplanes at North Island and why the Yoko boat has to use the barge to Kisarazu. It also makes some of us "older" guys wonder why we ever handed over Alameda. The biggest piers you ever saw right next to an operating airfield. Plus a great place to pull in for some liberty and a great O'club on base.