Deck ballet: blast deflectors up, and nobody touches paint 59d90e8

Two more pieces of the most dangerous 4.5 acres on Earth fell into place:

1. The boards work. Both bow cats now have their jet blast deflector — the panel lies flush with the deck while a jet taxies over it into position, rises to its full 57° as the holdback tensions, stands through the shot, and drops the moment the shuttle fires so the next aircraft can come forward. Your cat, and the air wing’s: watch Cat 2 cycle a Viking and you’ll see the whole ballet — deflector up, wings spread, shot, deflector down.
2. Deck marshal, one mover at a time. Aircraft on deck no longer drift through each other. A single-mover rule sequences every taxi; a jet whose path is blocked by a parked aircraft, a jet at the cat, or you holds position with the brakes on until the way is clear — exactly like the yellow shirts waving and crossing their arms. Row jets slip out through the widest gap in the pack instead of driving over their neighbours, and a recovering jet that traps while the deck is busy waits on the angle until its turn. Wings stay folded for the whole taxi and spread at the cat, where the cat officer still won’t start the countdown until they read full spread.
3. Respotted for clearance. The C-2’s park moved out of the port row to the starboard street — the row was spotted tighter than a folded wingtip could clear, and the real deck would never allow it either.