Jura The idiot
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Déjà vu
RIMPAC 2018 Tuesday at 7:04 AM
now
More Monday arrivals at Harbor: 's big assault ship L01, frigates 05 and 156
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Aircraft Carriers III
- Thread starter Jeff Head
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RIMPAC 2018 Tuesday at 7:04 AM
Thanks. It's good to know something positive rubs off once in a while! I grew up in the 70s, my only experience of warfare was through movies (surprisingly large number of them filling the TV schedules back then). They were very educational to a degree. Nobody I went to school with was unaware of WW2 or why it happened. We also had the benefit of the early 70s documentary series 'The World at War' narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier (himself a war veteran, he served in The Fleet Air Arm) which spelled out the facts of the war. My generation were in no doubt the Nazis were bad and had to be stopped. But I digress...
The one area of warfare neglected by Hollywood was Naval Aviation, understandably as Aircraft Carriers weren't cheap to rent for movies, and in the postwar years the rapid advance of technology meant within a matter of fifteen years there were no longer any carriers around that resembled their WW2 configuration on active duty (hence available for filming). There were of course a few notable exceptions (Tora Tora Tora, 1970, The Battle of Midway 1976 and the Final Countdown 1980). Once you've tasted the thrill of deck launches and the nerve shredding experience that is making a trap aboard a carrier, you'll look at runways on land and those who use them and think PUSSIES!
Of course I am jesting somewhat (well a bit anyway). There's just something essentially pleasing to the eye about a carrier, the Human eye is apparently drawn to things asymmetrical and there is nothing more lop sided than a Carrier!And HMS Victorious was one of the most beautiful to grace the seas...
Jura The idiot
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Jura The idiot
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Jura The idiot
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Oriskany an Essex do about same size than Clemenceau Class and we have 42 F-8 for 2 Flotillas until 1999 in service in one i know the stuff ...
And BTW Obi Wan Russell Air Force Brat bd popeye
FORBIN greets you well
My Dad was the Chief Engineer for structure and dynamics for the F-8 crusader and A-7 Corsair II.
Both were excellent aircraft and performed their roles very well at the time. The French used the F-8s up into the late 1990s.
Here are several pages of pictures of daylight flight operations of the USS Gerald Fod CVN-78. They have worked their way up to 12 aircraft testing and working air ops. That number will steadliy climb.
One needs to remember that the Ford class is an entirely new class of carrier with new catapults, new arresting gerar and mechanisms, new propulsion, and a new flight deck arrangement. They will test all of the permutations for each aircraft in every possible configuration and in every weather and flight condition imaginable to make sure that all of the new equiment works, that all of the personnel are trained well enough to be able to practically operate it in their slee[p, and to ensure that the carrier can function
Day time operations:
@bd popeye @Air Force Brat @kwaigonegin @vesicles @Jura @asif iqbal @siegecrossbow @Deino @Equation @Bltizo @A.Man @duncanidaho @TerraN_EmpirE @dtulsa
One needs to remember that the Ford class is an entirely new class of carrier with new catapults, new arresting gerar and mechanisms, new propulsion, and a new flight deck arrangement. They will test all of the permutations for each aircraft in every possible configuration and in every weather and flight condition imaginable to make sure that all of the new equiment works, that all of the personnel are trained well enough to be able to practically operate it in their slee[p, and to ensure that the carrier can function
Day time operations:
@bd popeye @Air Force Brat @kwaigonegin @vesicles @Jura @asif iqbal @siegecrossbow @Deino @Equation @Bltizo @A.Man @duncanidaho @TerraN_EmpirE @dtulsa
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