ABE - Aviation Boatswain's Mate, Launching and Recovery Equipment
An aircraft carrier runway is about 300 feet long—a mere fraction of the length of a normal airport runway. Launching and landing planes on this strip is challenging even on days when the ocean isn’t rocking the ship back and forth. It takes a fearless team of trained experts known as Aviation Boatswain’s Mates - Launch & Recovery (ABE) to make sure every launch runs—and returns—smoothly.
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Job Description
Aviation Boatswain's Mates, Launching and Recovery Equipment (ABE) operate, maintain, and perform maintenance on steam catapults, barricades, arresting gear, and associated equipment ashore and afloat; operate catapult hydraulic systems, retraction engines, water brakes, jet blast deflectors, deckedge and ICCS, and jet blast deflector control panels; arresting gear engines, sheave dampers, deckedge control station, and associated equipment; perform aircraft handling duties related to the operation of aircraft launching and recovery equipment
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