[fight_truth_decay]

attached to the fourth and last tether cable on the flight deck

...the fourth is the first tether a pilot comes to ..the NYTimes made the blunder in reporting...the others just copied the story.

The ENTIRE headline is bogus!Bush Makes Hairy Landing on Aircraft Carrier for End of War Speech

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

...the fourth is the first tether a pilot comes to ..the NYTimes made the blunder in reporting...the others just copied the story.

Incorrect. The four arresting wires are numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4 from aft to fore. The number four wire is the last wire the plane can catch, not the first. Spend some time on a CVN and learn something so you won't repeat your own blunder.

[dvwjr]

No, you are wrong. The below poster has the correct info:

16 posted on 05/04/2003 1:07 PM EDT by SMEDLEYBUTLER

The number four wire IS the last wire before a bolter.

Get your facts straight and stop inventing them. There is nothing worse than "knowing" you are absolutely "right" when you are absolutely WRONG.

dvwjr

[RightWhale]

the fourth is the first tether a pilot comes to

Thanks for the clarification.

It's like DEFCON 5 being the lowest readiness and DEFCON 1 being maximum force readiness. Backwards.