French aircraft carrier heads home

BBC News ^ | 02/17/2003

[RJL]

I heard that the French carrier, the Charles DeGaulle lost a prop. Do you know where I can read more on this?

This is the only article I found on a quick search here on FR.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/878542/posts

I have read other articles here on FR that went into more detail. Among the problems I remember the French had:

A Blade broke off a Prop, the ship had to be towed back to port.
The flight deck had to be lengthened to handle E-2C Hawkeye airplanes
They couldn’t see out the windows, the armored glass had clouded up.
They couldn’t run all the clothes washing machines at the same time because it would shake the whole ship.

[Cobra64]

Thanks RJL. Terrific summary. Also, I spent some time on Google doing searches on the CDG and found this article which I bookmarked for future purposes. Try this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/03/11/wfra11.xml

[ChuxsterS]

Maybe they've gone back to port for a new paint job and other upgrades:

[Riley]

I heard that the French carrier, the Charles DeGaulle lost a prop. Do you know where I can read more on this?

Nothing jumps to mind that isn't already in this thread or linked to it- did you try a Google search?