Ready Rooms 'Ready' for High-Tech Mission Planning

摘要

Since the earliest days of aircraft carrier-based flight, naval aviators have conducted pre-flightmission planning, briefing and post-flight debriefing in "Ready Rooms" that were outfitted with themost basic accommodations: paper charts were taped to bulkheads; a few chalkboards were usedfor drawing; a battered desk housed a couple of drawers from which the squadron duty officer(SDO) attempted to control the daily chaos of endlessly changing operational priorities and flightschedules; and, of course, there was the infamous Ready Room chair.