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PETITION: Name the 2nd Ford Class Nuclear Carrier the USS Enterprise
Petition Online - Name the 2nd Ford Class Carrier USS Enterprise ^
| 1 February 2011
| Jeff Head
Posted on 02/01/2011 6:35:44 AM PST by Jeff Head
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To: Jeff Head
Here we go!!
I am sending the link to local talk radio and Lars Larson.
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02/18/2011 4:06:09 PM PST
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mad_as_he$$
( "Hokahey, today is a good day to die!" Crazy Horse, Lakota Sioux)
To: cva66snipe
Looking at the second picture can anyone tell me if that is a sonar dome in the bow?
Nope, the bulbous bow design is intended both to improve hydrodynamics around the hull and provide more buoyancy to the forward part of the ship. The Reagan and Bush have them as well, and there was some thought to putting them into some of the earlier Nimitz-class CVs during their RCOHs. I don't think Roosevelt, which is currently in RCOH, will get one, don't know about Lincoln. There are apparently issues with the middle-members of the class (Stennis and Truman particularly) - which weigh more than the earlier ones - going green over the bow too easily during higher sea states and having flight operations impacts from too much pitching.
To: tanknetter
Thanks for the info. I can say from experience being in #1 pumproom in the bow in heavy seas is no fun whatsoever. One time I got pitched off the ladder coming up out of #2 pumproom trunk due to a sudden list. Netting in trunks is a good thing LOL.
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02/18/2011 5:30:15 PM PST
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cva66snipe
(Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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