Posted on 06/29/2021 11:36:44 PM PDT by LibWhacker
High speed carrier turns, click here => https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Q8P049-2Q
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Went on sea trials with the USS Ronald Reagan, was amazing.
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I figured, sea trials, was exactly what we were looking at.
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Crazy Ivan!!!!
I noticed no aircraft on the flight deck unless they already slid off.
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I wonder how many water skiers it can tow?
i watched the uss nimitz, and the ike do that in the 1970’s. Nothing has cjanged.
I hope they don’t run into Guam, they may tip it over.
I was fishing in my jon-boat, on the mud flats about three miles away, when the wake from that maneuver rolled in causing 15 foot waves! All my guns were washed overboard.
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I was on the USS Yellowstone doing post repair sea trials. The ship was 20000 tons light (meaning low fuel load, load supplies, etc). Center of gravity much higher. The commanding officer didn’t think things were tied down as they should so during a full power run he ordered a hard turn to port (left). The wind was coming from behind. The ship listed to starboard almost 40 degrees. Lathes broke their mounts, steel cabinets full of parts broke the bolts holding them to the deck. File cabinet drawers slid right out of the cabinet because the safety latch had swung so far. I was in the chiefs mess and coffee was spilling out of the top of the coffee maker. I ended up hanging off a table dodging chairs and other sliding stuff. Something like 150 sailors were injured and a couple were air medivaced. At that moment images of the Poseidon movie flashed through my head. Upon return to port the ship was met by the group commander and the commanding officer (and several others) were immediately relieved of their posts.
When I was on the USS JFK, they sent me to work in the Chief’s Mess, which was, all in all, pretty good if you had to do mess duty, because they had good food!
While I was doing mess duty, the ship was doing sea trials after an overhaul, and one of the things they did was high speed turns like this. You can imagine we had to prepare, and in the mess hall, they a large rolling steel cabinet that was loaded with glass dishes and bowls, and it had to be secured to the bulkhead.
It wasn’t secured well, and when the ship did the high speed turn and heeled, that thing came loose, flew across the deck and smashed into an opposing bulkhead.
You can imagine the mess, there were broken dishes and bowls everywhere!
The physical forces at work during that maneuver are yuge. Props to the ship builders for making this plus size toy.
This is likely because there is no airwing aboard.
I don’t have any doubt that turn could be accomplished with planes on deck. But it is a certainty that the planes would NOT have six point tie-downs. I am certain it would be 12 or 24 point tie downs.
But I am confident it could be done.
I should add that while I think it could be done with aircraft tied down on the flight deck, they might not simply because it isn’t worth the risk.
After all, in this kind of test they are testing the ability of the ship to turn, not the ability of planes to stay tied down during a turn, so they might just do it when there is no air wing.
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