What a blast!
I did sea trial onboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) and USS George Washington (CVN-73). Nothing beats that first night at sea and the high power runs the shipyard has to make to demonstrate what the hull can do.
people would be amazed at how fast one of these ships can move when it wants to...
“people would be amazed at how fast one of these ships can move when it wants to...”
You can say that again. I served aboard the USS Enterprise CVAN-65 during the Veitnam War as part of the Air Wing VF-96 and coming back to San Francisco we would race the other ships and guess which one was the fastest. Yep, the Enterprise.
I've heard varying speeds. No civilian seems to know how fast the Ronald Reagan is. Care to share?