I've always been nuts about aircraft carriers. Navy ships, fast planes, complex systems. An aircraft carrier is like a symphony, a massive exercise of teamwork that crosses an incredible range of specialities. The USS Yorktown is moored at Patriots Point, just across the harbour from Charleston, South Carolina, and even in retirement the flight deck is a complicated, cluttered place. Heaven knows what it was like in the middle of a battle, wind whipping over the deck, the reek of smoke,  more...