Clikando aquí puede leerse, en francés, un relato sobre un día en la vida de un
"yellow dog" o "perro amarillo", un oficial componente del equipo de encargados del movimento y catapultado de aviones en la cubierta de vuelo de un portaaviones y reconocibles por el color de su chaleco y camisa.
Los armeros y que llevan chaleco rojo (como los bomberos), son llamados, en Francia, los "boum"...
Coronel Von Rohaut
(PS) El código de color de los distintos equipos de cubierta puede verse a continuación:
Yellow |
- Aircraft handling officers
- Catapult and arresting gear officers
- Plane directors – authoritative for all movement of all aircraft on the flight/hangar deck
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Green |
- Catapult and arresting gear crews
- Air wing maintenance personnel
- Air wing quality control personnel
- Cargo-handling personnel
- Ground support equipment (GSE) troubleshooters
- Hook runners
- Photographer's mates
- Helicopter landing signal enlisted personnel (LSE)
|
White |
- Quality Assurance (QA)
- Squadron plane inspectors
- Landing signal officer (LSO)
- Air transfer officers (ATO)
- Liquid oxygen (LOX) crews
- Safety observers
- Medical personnel (white with Red Cross emblem)
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Red |
- Ordnance men
- Crash and salvage crews
- Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD)
- Firefighter
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Blue |
- Plane handlers (Trainees)
- Chocks and chains – entry-level flight-deck workers under the yellowshirts
- Aircraft elevator operators
- Tractor drivers
- Messengers and phone talkers
|
Purple |
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Brown |
- Air wing plane captains: squadron personnel that prepare aircraft for flight
- Air wing line leading petty officers
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White/black |
- Final checker (inspector).
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