asif iqbal
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Check the black search and rescue the air lift on the side
PLAN Aircraft Carrier programme...(Closed)
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If you look at the picture that shows in the link to the video in Asif's post, I believe he is talking about the winch on the left side, outside the helo cabin.
They use it to lower SAR personnel (divers, etc.) to the surface, and then bring them and any individuals they are rescuing back up to the helicopter with.
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Pictures of Liaoning as she approached, arrived at, and docked at Sanya base:
The is the guy with his hands on the levers controlling.To me they look like the old style automatic gear change column.
Throttle Quadrant, its amazing what someone with some seamanship can do with a couple of throttles, I've heard some of the sub boys can get underway without tugs, though it is challenging, Norfolk sounds like a crazy place as the continental shelf is very shallow for quite some distance, anyway I'm assuming that's the bridge. brat
I can't see any visible means of communicating with the helmsman so I wonder if this is a staged photograph?
Possibly CIC? Or just one of the carrier's many control rooms for whatever purposes. The consoles don't look like the typical current generation CIC consoles. I like the exposed overhead wiring and piping too, means easier to maintain and control damage if hit.
Those rolling office chairs in the background would be exciting to sit in when the ship encounters a real heavy sea.
Btw, the sea is not really rough in the picture of wave washing up to deck level after hitting the bow. The sea is actually only choppy with a few white caps. The wave is likely part of bow wave from the ship doing very high speed, probably over 30 knots.
A real rough sea is where serious wave crests reaches deck level and curl over before hitting the ship's bow.
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Well, Chuck, hehehe...if you were standing on that sponson when that water washed aboard, you would not think it was just choppy.
But this is the best we have seen so far for the Liaoning, and though you may think those waves are just "choppy," they are swells and are probabaly somewhat more than that. A swell does not have to white cap to provide for a good ride.
But, I will be the first to admit that there are much rougher seas a carrier can face...and some of us have been out in such seas, and most of us have seen videos and pictures of those mammoth waves washing over the bow of US carriers. "Rough" was probably not a good word for it on my part...but believe me, on that sponson, with that water washing over you, it would nonetheless be perilous.
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Just as a Farm Boy, I'd say the swells are 12 to 15 feet, and this is more like a moderate chop, and if she is making a little speed that would seem to be in line with our edumakated guessing, but I would remind that if this was a flat deck with no ramp, it would look a lot different, the ramp makes it appear less "rough" due to its height above the flat deck. brat
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Spent over half my adult life out there on aircraft carriers. That pic is a combination of a slight chop and CV-16's forward speed. Liaoning flight deck is closer to the water than a US supercarrier's is (I'll let one of supposed experts look that up) so its going to look a bit more dramatic. I have been out to sea on a super carrier and when green water comes over the flight deck it is no fun. No fun for the Liaoning either, but the comparisons are like apples to oranges.
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