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To: JoeFromSidney

Top speed of 32 knots.....that’s so cute. They will have troubles recovering an aircraft with a flap problem in light winds.


6 posted on 01/19/2015 9:54:29 AM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: USNBandit
Top speed of 32 knots.....that’s so cute. They will have troubles recovering an aircraft with a flap problem in light winds.

You sent me off on a quest to find out the top speed of a Nimitz Class carrier. No definite answer, but the published 'more than 30 knots' is being very coy. They go like hell, and probably have an acoustic signature that's detectable a thousand miles away at those speeds. :-)

13 posted on 01/19/2015 6:56:42 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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