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all! </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Ready for a second tour of the USS Hornet?
Join Vista Voyagers and Shared Paths next month on <u>Tuesday, October
27 at 4:00PM</u>. Vista Board Member and docent, <span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Bill</span> <span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Miklos</span>, will be guiding
us throughout the USS Hornet once again to explore areas not covered in the
first virtual tour. Tour will include sounds, vibrant descriptions, and
visuals. See his detailed description of what to expect below! </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
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replying to this email before October 25th. Zoom information will be
sent once you have RSVP’d. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:rgb(50,49,48)"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)">I am Bill Miklos, a member of the Board of Directors of the Vista
Center and a docent on the USS Hornet Aircraft Carrier Museum in Alameda California.
As such, I have been giving full-ship tours for seven years now but primarily I
work on the flight deck with our guests. Last time we did a tour for Vista, we
walked down the pier next to the ship, walked up the gangway to the quarterdeck
in the hangar bay, walked down the hangar deck to the escalator to the flight
deck and did a virtual flight deck tour and talked about catapulting aircraft
off the flight deck and recovering aircraft using the arresting gear at the aft
end of the flight deck. We mentioned the “Island” which is a big narrow
structure on the left side of the flight deck from which all flight deck
operations are controlled and where the Captain sails the ship. BUT we did not
tour what is inside the Island.....until now. </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)">This time we will virtually tour the inside of the island, three
levels up from the flight deck and our first stop will be the navigation area
where we will discuss how navigation was done and how the navigation techniques
evolved over time. The next area near navigation is, rightfully so, the pilot
house where crew members actually sailed the ship. We will discuss how this was
done and point out the Captain’s “At Sea” cabin where he lived while the ship
was at sea. We will then walk out onto the bridge, which is a narrow, covered
area that is around the pilot house where the captain can command the ship,
control “Underway Replenishment” operations and observe operations on the
flight deck. We will then go down one ladder to level 5 where we will discuss
interesting aspects of the recovery of Apollo 11 for which the Hornet was the
Prime Recovery Ship, (PRS). That will complete our tour of this portion of the
island of the USS Hornet. </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)">We will discuss history, navigation technology, ship control,
Apollo 11 recovery and some aspects of crew life on the ship. Welcome aboard the
USS Hornet for another Vista-sponsored tour of what has been called a “gem” of
a ship museum by the San Francisco Chronicle. </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
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