On the flight deck sat an aircraft near and dear to another blogger's heart, blogging over at Chant du Depart, as, after all, he flew them.
The S-3B Viking was on the flight deck.
It's yet another impressively large aircraft up close. A multi-role, multi-mission aircraft, it served in the Navy on carriers from 1974 until 2009, and one or two are still being flown by NASA.
Again, she was a Murphy-proofed bird with all access points sealed.
Like the Phantom, she never operated off of an Essex-class carrier, being too big by far.
