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After decades of service, the USS Enterprise will take her final bow Friday
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| 1/31/2017
| Todd Corillo
Posted on 02/01/2017 10:49:59 AM PST by TermLimitsforAll
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
The Midway is the only aircraft carrier born a straight decker, then converted to an angle deck. Touring the ship take a full day...
No. The British developed the angled deck, first refitting HMS Triumph. USS Midway was the first American ship be rebuilt with an angled deck. However, many of our Essex class carriers (mostly the long Essex Class ships) were rebuilt. If you come to New York City, you can see our museum ship, USS Intrepid. The "Evil I" has an angled deck. I loved it as a kid.
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02/02/2017 4:11:05 PM PST
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rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
To: AFreeBird
Notice the unsucessful phased array radars on the USS Enterprise and USS Long Beach. Shame they didn’t get Aegis upgrades.
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02/02/2017 4:13:38 PM PST
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rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
To: SubMareener
The National geographic had a full article on her when she was commissioned. There was a picture of her going in a circle, and she was catching her own wake.
The reporter, while having a cup of coffee with the captain in his quarters, asked how she handles in a storm, as they sat quietly sipping. He replied that they were at that moment sailing into a full gale.
It was the mid sixties I remember the article well.
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02/02/2017 4:19:12 PM PST
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going hot
(Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
To: rmlew
I’ve read that the Brits also developed the steam catapult for carriers.
I’ve visited NYC once in my life when an old girlfriend was going to school in NJ and I drove over from Iowa City to pick her up for Christmas break.
I had read in the NYT that Bob & Ray were appearing on stage at a little theater. We went and I laughed and laughed at their routine. She didn’t get any of it...
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02/02/2017 4:58:06 PM PST
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Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: rmlew
Whole lot of infrastructure goes behind those panels. Big E’s contribution was the reactors.
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