Plane Taxis To Sled -- In a Navy demonstration showing how cruisers and battleships recover their scout planes, this plane taxis to a "Sled" in the "Charlie Recovery" method, before being hoisted aboard the USS Denver. In this method, a sled is allowed to stream behind the ship; the plane taxis to the sled; the sled is then reeled into a position under a crane waiting to hoist the plane aboard. October 07, 1946. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).