.....; Posted on 08/17/2014 9:23:43 AM PDT by virgil283
"The USS Enterprise, a Navy ship stationed in Virginia, is slowly being taken apart.
According to The Daily Press, the ship's 'inactivation' is being handled in Newport News. The Enterprise was active between 1962 and 2012 - and is 'the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier,' The Press said.A ninth USS Enterprise will eventually be built and may include parts of the eighth ship being disassembled, the newspaper said.
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Our country is a different matter. It is purposely being sabotaged by a movement called Political Correctness. The Captain at her helm is unfit for command {in a Naval terminology sense}. So are the ones under him.
Undeterred, NRDC converted a bomber, the NB-36H, to carry a fully functional nuclear reactor as a feasibility study. Whenever the NB-36 flew from the Convair facility at Dallas-Fort Worth it had a C-119 full of armed paratroopers as a chase plane. If the NB-36 went down, it was the paratroopers’ job to parachute into the crash site and cordon it off until crash investigators and decontamination crews arrived. No word on protective gear for the paratroopers, so they might have been considered expendable.
The stupidity of the NB-36 program was realized and it, along with its now radioactive servicing equipment, were put into very long term secure storage. The pit for the installation and removal of the reactor is still visible at the former Convair (now Lockheed-Martin) site at DFW.
When I was a young girl, the USS Enterprise came to Boston. It was too big to dock, so it moored out in the Harbor. Dad and i sailed out to see it on a 13.5 foot Sunfish.
I will NEVER forget that as long as I live!
Typo: “but” and not “buy”.
Been on her 3 times....all carrier quals for our new pilots. get on the flight deck with rookie pilots and tell me its boring you dip. USS Hancock, Midway & Coralsea, Top Gun Miramar been around the block or two. You need to go away for you not know what you speak of
Try working the flight deck during Air Ops...
In bad weather...
At night...
(actually, MOST of what happens at sea is NOT boring, except for the grunts on board the Gator Navy) Then get back to us.
I still think the smartest thing to have done would have been to simply give her to Israel. Her compatibility was a problem for us but would not pose a problem to Israeli engineers. It would have cost $0. It would have made Israel more able to defend itself, needing less reliance on us. It would have decreased everyone’s will to invade them.
Heck, I’d even toss in a few surface ships and an air wing or 2. I’m growing weary of futilely trying to keep the peace there. Israel would be more than willing to defend themselves if better armed.
Photos over the years of the carrier Enterprise:
http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/uss-enterprise-cvn-65-retires-l-photos/
Past & Future Enterprises:
http://www.dan-dare.org/FreeFun/Images/CartoonsMoviesTV/StarTrekWallpaper2800.jpg
Seven USS Enterprises docked
http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/4400000/The-Old-The-New-star-trek-4412237-1280-800.jpg
The Enterprise was nuclear powered.
The Sunfish was powered by the WIND.
That’s quite a contrast! LOL! “Awesome” indeed! ;-0
Enterprise’s nuc power plant did not operate with 1200 psi,
superheated steam. Nuclear power plants are not superheated they run on saturated steam. You are very correct in stating her removal from service was necessary for safety.
Thanks. I didn’t know that. Well at least unlike superheated you might see a leak. Superheated was an unseen killer. It’s an old plant though steam piping wise and likely reactor wise. USN got it’s life & moneys worth out of her.
Not really, the fate of almost all ships in the world is either the bottom, or the breakers. Warships are no different. Of the thousands of warships built for out Navy, most have been scrapped, some were used as targets, a couple a dozen wind up as museums.
.....this is the bow of a carrier in dry dock; 
.....This is the stern...;
I took a walk under the America a few times 1979-80 overhaul. I’ve also been inside the boiler up to the base of the stack where I could look up and see sky. I saw spaces then that I would have never otherwise seen.
I think we were higher up off the drydock floor though. We could literally stand up and walk underneath the ship. It felt weird though.
Heh, I have done more than a turn or two around those old girls in small boats...liberty launches...:)
Hey, Chode...thanks for the pings, I always appreciate them!
most welcome... how ya been???
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