Only 146 men and women both launched and landed aboard Atlantis.
"You landed last night aboard the bender Nord, did you not?"
Being assigned command of the air group for the newly launched Saratoga, he was the first to land an aircraft aboard her.
When it landed on the deck and those aboard saw that it, too, had no head, an awful silence fell.
It also has much better 'over-the-nose' vision to make it easy to land aboard a carrier at a high angle of attack.
Never before has a president landed aboard a carrier at sea, much less taken the controls of the aircraft.
Worst case, if they ran out of gas, they could land aboard the Constitution, I suppose.
Boomer quickly closed the distance and dropped his hook, now ready to land aboard the carrier.
Later that morning, a Sikorsky R-4 helicopter landed aboard to pick up mail and photographic film.
U-30 took them in tow and landed a prize crew aboard her to gather provisions and then scuttle the ship.