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1 posted on 09/24/2010 10:14:49 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Oh, total ping for later!!


2 posted on 09/24/2010 10:15:25 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Showboat!


3 posted on 09/24/2010 10:19:00 AM PDT by VR-21
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To: sukhoi-30mki; Beowulf9

Woot! I got to see the hulk of the Long Beach CGN when I overflew Seattle. I wish we could get her and the Iowa-class BBs up and going.


4 posted on 09/24/2010 10:19:51 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (FORGET the lawyers...first kill the "journalists". (Die Ritter der Kokosnuss))
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Salute.... and bookmark.


5 posted on 09/24/2010 10:20:14 AM PDT by existtoexcel
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To: sukhoi-30mki

My father worked for the Brooklyn Naval Shipyard as a shipfitter. He was able to get us aboard the Enterprise in a tour group for employees and their families. It is a day that I will never forget. We were able to walk through the entire ship, on all decks and it was one of the most beautiful experiences I have ever seen in my life. Unfortunately, shortly after the Brooklyn Naval Shipyard closed down forever.


6 posted on 09/24/2010 10:22:40 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Can’t remember which Star Trek movie this ship was in, but I vaguely remember a wonderful moment when Chekhov was at or in the ship, reporting to Kirk that he was at “the Enterprise”.


9 posted on 09/24/2010 10:24:40 AM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki; magslinger

What a ship!


11 posted on 09/24/2010 10:26:20 AM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
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To: magslinger

ping


15 posted on 09/24/2010 10:28:32 AM PDT by Vroomfondel (<---- doesn't know how to use the three shells)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
The yard(Newport News) had built 17 carriers before the Enterprise, including ships in the Forrestal class and the Kitty Hawk class, but it wasn't the only player in the business.

You'd think they'd mention ships of the Yorktown & Essex class before Forrestal.

16 posted on 09/24/2010 10:29:28 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: sukhoi-30mki
I served aboard Enterprise as a member of Reconnaissance Attack Squadron Seven in 1966-67.

I could go on at great length with a multitude of stories about that great ship,suffice it to say that of the seven carriers I've served aboard she was always my most memorable one.

17 posted on 09/24/2010 10:29:28 AM PDT by oldsalt (There's no such thing as a free lunch.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

I remember, back when I was a kid, the Enterprise was the coolest thing in the whole world... Cooler than the Astronauts... Cooler than the Blue Angels... Cooler than anything.

It still is.


18 posted on 09/24/2010 10:30:00 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Anything not about elephants is irrelephant.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Somebody should ask Betty Ford if she would not mind, terribly, if her late husband’s name was bumped pack one place in line when it comes time to name our next Supercarrier...


23 posted on 09/24/2010 10:40:55 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Anything not about elephants is irrelephant.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
which required 915 designers and more than 16,000 construction drawings — each done by hand with mechanical pencils and based on calculations done with sliderules.

Ahh, the good old days.

31 posted on 09/24/2010 10:55:03 AM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: sukhoi-30mki

But Shatner/Roddenberry's show only premiered 44 years ago.

32 posted on 09/24/2010 10:55:57 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Haze gray and underway for 50 years. Who would have thought that the US Government could actually make a good investment. And the funny thing is that at 50 years old she is still more capable than any of the other carriers in the world. In fact she may be more capable than anything the rest of the world even has on the drawing board.


44 posted on 09/24/2010 11:34:52 AM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

my nephew is serving on the Enterprise, very cool. his whole family have been star trek fanatics for years so it’s even more cool.


48 posted on 09/24/2010 11:49:28 AM PDT by madamemayhem (defeat is not getting knocked down, it is not getting back up.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
I was stationed on Big E in the late 80's. Still the greatest ship in the fleet. Congress had better name one of the new Ford carriers Enterprise (or if they cancel them and build the Nimitz class again). There should always be an Enterprise in the fleet. Always.
53 posted on 09/24/2010 12:00:10 PM PDT by DesScorp
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To: Vroomfondel; SC Swamp Fox; Fred Hayek; NY Attitude; P3_Acoustic; investigateworld; lowbuck; ...
SONOBUOY PING!

Click on pic for past Navair pings.

Post or FReepmail me if you wish to be enlisted in or discharged from the Navair Pinglist.
The only requirement for inclusion in the Navair Pinglist is an interest in Naval Aviation.
This is a medium to low volume pinglist.

55 posted on 09/24/2010 12:52:04 PM PDT by magslinger ('This is a United States Marine Corps FA-18 fighter. Send 'em up, I'll wait!')
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