Posted on 09/06/2015 11:21:23 AM PDT by PROCON
For some reason that conjures up an image of all the planes sliding off into the water........LOL!
As a side note, I wonder if anyone has ever tried water skiing behind one of these things.......
What was the saying the escort destroyer crews had? Something about deserving flight pay and submarine pay both because half the time they were in the air and the other half under water?
If you served on the flight deck of this ship, you would be DAMM happy for its ability to turn like that.
When somebody gets blown over the side, they rack the thing around like that and it almost creates a force that keeps him on near the top of the water so he can be picked up. Outside of combat, that is the main reason they have the ability to perform this maneuver.
You’re probably right. I never paid much attention to the guy until the liberals felt the need to name a U.S. Navy ship after him. I guess we can all look forward to seeing the USS Cinco de Mayo next.
My brother spent 5 years on the Ike including a year in the Gulf when the Iranian jihadists took the hostages. He said it was the first and only time the Navy delivered beer to the ship. Luckily for him a couple of his buddies did not drink so he ended up with a 12 pack. Of course he is constantly busting my chops every time Navt beats Army in football but other than that he is a damn good brother.
Even the Chinese and Russians know they will easily do 50+ knots.
I've personally seen them BLOW BY a Destroyer Group with a rooster tail coming off the a$$ end nearly 1/2 the length of the ship.
She was doing 60mph easy.
Check this one out, high speed turns on a CVN.
These are ships that China claims they can hit with a ballistic missile lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4KnCqcTEOU
“Even the Chinese and Russians know they will easily do 50+ knots.”
Yep! That info has been classified for a long time, but with so many foreign satelites watching overhead, it seems a bit silly to not just come out and admitt to at least the 50knots. I still find it very impressive that a floating airport and city can outrun many/most so called speed boats, lol!
I've rode a DDG through a Typhoon in the Pacific.
I can relate. I was sure she would come apart.
If a carrier hit land at 60 knotts, how far inland before it finally stops?
I could see obama wishing to name one after neville chamberlain.
Sailed on DD 497? the Bache in 1960 and it could do 37 knots. Supposed to be the fastest ship in the Navy then.
Rebuilt Fletcher class after a Kamikaze hit it at the end of WW II. Thought was the new engines and rebuilt hull did the magic. No nuke power back then.
The part during the storm where the bow of my brother's destroyer went underwater was pretty disturbing! :-)
My father was on Ike at the same time. He was Air Officer.
No, I’m an idiot. Ace Driver was Air. Dad was Weapons. I should remember, I coached him through Nuclear Weapons school, memorizing all the missiles. Later I edited the safety manuals so that a dangling participle didn’t turn the East Coast into a radioactive wasteland.
From the late 60’s to early 90’s I would go fishing on the Chesapeake Bay a couple of weeks every summer.
I loved watching the ships going and coming.
The smallest naval ships exuded an aura of strength that the largest container ship couldn’t match.
The first aircraft carrier I saw, summer of 1973, made my jaw drop.
The thing was huge!
It gave me a warm fuzzy feeling to realise that monster of a ship and it’s crew were protecting my insignificant self.
I can’t imagine how much larger the new carriers must be.
Pictures don’t do them justice.
When I see pictures of these large aircraft carriers, I remember as a young child in the 1930s my godfather, an Annapolis grad then in the navy, telling my family at the dinner table that airplanes could never sink a battleship. “The battleship would just go on about its business.” He was captain of the “Porter” (not a battleship) when it was sunk in WWII.
I read this article and immediately thought it was a response to the Chinese DF-21 hypersonic missle talk that’s been going around. The US is basically saying, “this baby can move - it’s not going to be as easy to hit it as you think.”
USS Princeton (LPH-5) came out of the FRAM II overhaul after 9 months in drydock in June 1961. Shakedown cruise included high speed (33 knots), high angle turn (~ 30 degrees) and crash stop from 33 knots. All gut wrenching.
As a side note, I wonder if anyone has ever tried water skiing behind one of these things.......
The above two images will keep my imagination occupied for a spell this afternoon...............
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