What is the main setting in the novel, Flight of the Intruder?

The novel has two principal settings. The first is aboard the aircraft carrier USS Shiloh, which contains the 400 men and 16 planes of the air squadron to which Jake Grafton belongs. The carrier is usually off the coast of Vietnam, but the ocean has only a minor part in the setting, mostly as an undesirable place to crash a plane. Jake often wanders around the ship, visiting many sections of it, including the hangars, ready room, the deck, staterooms, other officers' rooms, the mess hall, the latrines, and he spends time in his own quarters. Taken together, these descriptions of such locales on the ship create a sense of a contained place that nevertheless is wide in the variety of its settings, and a sense also emerges of the strength or even the security of the carrier. In contrast, the second principal setting is full of danger and uncertainty. It is the cockpit of whichever aircraft Jake is flying, usually an Intruder fighter plane. In this setting, to which the novel frequently returns, split-second decisions can mean life or death, and fear goes hand-in-hand with acts of courage. Even the takeoffs of the planes, as they are catapulted by a ship's mechanism into the air, and their return landings, in which the pilots must descend at high speed and catch restraining wires to avoid a crash, are fraught with danger. Other settings include occasional shore leaves that take place in the Philippines and Hong Kong. In these places, it seems as if the immersion in peace is so sudden that the soldiers cannot fully make the shift into calmness, and their recreation is always edged with frantic or stressed emotions. No setting in this story is safe. Every place the men go is dominated by the reality of war.