Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "This article is about ready rooms. The fictional room that the television series Star Trek describes as the \"ready room\" is known in modern parlance as the captain's sea cabin.A ready room is a room on an aircraft carrier where on-duty pilots \"stand by\" their airplanes. Each flight squadron has its own individual ready room. Large squadrons, such as torpedo and dive-bomber squadrons, can have more than one ready room. Most ready rooms are located between the flight and hangar decks, but some are located on the flight deck.Squadron pilots in the Second World War considered the ready room to be a clubroom. One personal view from a World War II pilot stated:The funny thing about a ready room is that you get attached to the hole. As much as you are attached to the ship. It's more than sentiment. It's an urge for protection. The loneliest feeling in the whole of a carrier pilot's world is when he's at sea with the gas running low, and he can't see his carrier. You think of the ready room then, and the noisy guys who make it the most desirable place in the world. It's your office, you live in it, it is the big thing in your life. […] You sweat and worry in it, and grouse and argue, and you get mad at it when you can't hear yourself speak because everyone is yelling at once, but you're deeply attached to the place."@en }
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- Ready_room abstract "This article is about ready rooms. The fictional room that the television series Star Trek describes as the \"ready room\" is known in modern parlance as the captain's sea cabin.A ready room is a room on an aircraft carrier where on-duty pilots \"stand by\" their airplanes. Each flight squadron has its own individual ready room. Large squadrons, such as torpedo and dive-bomber squadrons, can have more than one ready room. Most ready rooms are located between the flight and hangar decks, but some are located on the flight deck.Squadron pilots in the Second World War considered the ready room to be a clubroom. One personal view from a World War II pilot stated:The funny thing about a ready room is that you get attached to the hole. As much as you are attached to the ship. It's more than sentiment. It's an urge for protection. The loneliest feeling in the whole of a carrier pilot's world is when he's at sea with the gas running low, and he can't see his carrier. You think of the ready room then, and the noisy guys who make it the most desirable place in the world. It's your office, you live in it, it is the big thing in your life. […] You sweat and worry in it, and grouse and argue, and you get mad at it when you can't hear yourself speak because everyone is yelling at once, but you're deeply attached to the place.".