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Million sounds better though. Like others have said, some of this inaccurate, mainly due to age of their sources. but overall pretty correct. oh, only the very basics of the engine room would make sense to someone from the industrial revolution, as it has a boiler, and uses steam to do work, in this case, spin a steam turbine, which they didn't have then, until almost the turn of the century, 20th that is. but they'd get steam powered at the most basic part, the PSI of steam, would blow their mind, or rpm of the turbines, how much hp they make, and electricity. the nuclear part, would be incomprehensible to all but the brightest of the day, after you did a ton of teaching, lol.
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Ya know you could always just run the length of a carrier out in the street and then say Wow. thats big.
You can see a aircraft carrier in north or south Carolina 👍
The "ice ship" was supposed to be made out of what's called pykrete. It's a mixture of ice and sawdust and is just as strong as concrete. There are videos about it that you might find interesting.
And given that blend, the melt rate was actually quite slow, not to mention that the hull was quite thick. It was a brilliant concept, but executing it successfully was another matter.
The Mythbusters also did an episode about it. They even built their own pykrete ship, albeit much smaller in scale.
I'd imagine they were easier to repair (and cheaper to build) than the regular ones?
The sawdust blended into the ice actually slows the potential melting -- because heat transfer via the blend is MUCH slower than in mere ice. And the wood fibres commingled with ice crystals is an extremely hard combination. Brilliant idea, but not practical in the long run. The military realized that the flight deck -- even though harder than concrete -- would still be easily pitted by shells, shrapnel, etc. >sigh
I watched the documentary on it and apparently the designer to prove his point on how tough the hole was shot the hole with his pistol and the bullet ricocheted and hit the guy he was showing it to
I lived on the USS Enterprise for 4 years. It had 8 nuclear reactor and on a busy day the galley (kitchen) could make 19,000 meals a day (serves 4 meals- breakfast, lunch, dinner, and Midrats).
@Trent Bunnell the USS Enterprise started out with 8 submarine nuclear reactors (reactors used in submarines) but they took four of the submarine nuclear reactors out because it was just too much power for the ship.
It’s now decommissioned and they are currently working on disassembling the reactors. My brother was working on that just prior to his retirement.
So, the carrier airwing hasn't had S3s or Tomcats in well over a decade. The Prowlers weren't on the carrier anymore since before the video was even made. The current airwing iconsists of 4 fighter squadrons, a Growler squadron, Hawkeye squadron and a helicoper squadron.... or something like that.
Yeah, I couldn't believe it when I saw that. Infographics is usually on top of their game, but that is incredibly outdated information. Tomcats haven't served aboard US carriers since September 2006.
@@Achromania Yeah that was incredibly surprising. I mean nobody flies F-14's anymore.
@@matthewmoore5254 Iran!! ... supposedly, maybe.
That list is like 20 years old.
@@matthewmoore5254 Except Tom Cruise lol
The USS Midway is docked at San Diego. It served 47 years and is now a museum. This is smaller than a Nimitz Class, but to see it in real life is totally incredible. When you see all of the steel, it is hard to comprehend how the thing can even float. It is one thing to know how large it is and see videos or pictures, but to see it in person really changes one's perception of just how big it is.
Going through the below deck is amazing, the amount of wiring and equipment was mind-blowing to see
USS Lexington Is down here in Corpus Christi Texas. I live 5 minutes from where Battleship Texas was before it was moved for drydock.(Pasadena)
What’s funny about serving on an aircraft carrier (5 years for me) is that all of the things that impress civilians become annoying inconveniences. I distinctly remember being supremely irritated whenever fighter jets were in the hangar bay because they made my trip from one end of the ship to the other take twice as long simply because I had to walk around them.
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My husband was on an aircraft carrier. I’d find him sound asleep on the couch his hand firmly holding his glass that was on the coffee table. He often had to hold on when in his bunk when the fighters took off, or be tossed out. BTW nuclear is the safest energy source we have. Submarines have been using nuclear since the 50’s. You are experiencing a knee jerk reaction. You’re doing what you’ve been taught, not what’s real. The source used for nuclear power isn’t anything like the source for a bomb and can’t be used as such. You can’t make the engine into a nuclear bomb
@@debbylou5729 I was a navy nuke. I literally worked on those reactors. But I wasn’t saying anything about them so I don’t know why you brought that up. You’re right, though. They’re extremely safe.
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I remember visiting the USS Intrepid (a WWII carries that's been turned into a floating museum in NYC). It was such a great experience, just blown away. They had some veterans volunteering that had actually served. Talked to one guy that was a Hellcat mechanic if I remember correctly (I went almost 20 years ago. They also had a WWII destroyer and submarine you could go on.
they now also have a concord jet and a space shuttle!
Patriot's Point museum in Mount Pleasant South Carolina is a must see for people interested in naval and military history . The centerpiece is the USS Yorktown.
That "typical" air wing for a US carrier is seriously out of date. The F-14 Tomcat was replaced by the F/A-18 Super Hornet in 2006. The S-3 Viking was retired in 2016 with no replacement aircraft so far. The EA-6 Prowler was replaced by the EF-18 Growler in 2009.
The graphic for the EA-6 was actually the Blackburn/Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer which left RAF/RN service in the early 90’s. Also they used a Sea Stallion for the SH-60.
@@zippydogthemisanthrope483, good catches. They didn't verify their visuals very well.
@@MichaelScheele They usually don't.
In US Navy "boot camp" it was drilled into us, "a snapping mooring rope (maybe a tug moved the ship wrong) can cut a man completely in half". What do you think a steel cable with that kind of force would do?
Not as much as we'd all imagine. Mythbusters did that test years ago. The result was that of course it can seriously hurt or kill someone, it's not cutting anybody in half.
The next time y'all go to NYC the Aircraft Carrier USS Intrepid (CV-11) Launched in 1943 and decommissioned in 1974, the Intrepid now rests at Pier 86 in New York City. At 872 feet long, it's an imposing ship. Granted it is by no means a super carrier but it is still impressive.
I was on the Eisenhower back in the early 90's, and since you mention running a 400M, I used to run around the flight deck for exercise when they weren't doing flight ops. If I couldn't go out on the flight deck, my other option was the hanger bay.
They are amazing ships, and very large. If I remember correctly, the flight deck was about 80 feet above the water.
My brother served on IKE back in 2012 and I went to Virginia to visit him and got to tour the carrier and it blew my mind!! Ty for your service!
I served in M-Div '86-'90, saw the Greenpeace incident in Palma de Mallorca, and the collision incident at end of '88 Med Deployment and Hurricane Hugo.
Proud US Navy vet. Plankowner (attached to a ship when it was commissioned) of CVN-73 USS George Washington from 1991-1994. The GW was the flagship of the 50th anniversary of D-Day celebrations that took place in Portsmouth. The Queen had her royal yacht Britainia pull up along side so Pres. Clinton could come aboard. I still have many great friendship that I made aboard the GW.
When you have a spare moment, check out CVN 65 USS Enterprise. This ship served 51 years and BTW she was the USA's first nuclear carrier. 😀
All this interesting stuff. And all i can remember is Millie saying to James...
..."hit the button!!!" That was funny!!
Broken cables and straps hurt way more people than you'd think,especially in the off roading community.
I watched a guy break a strap trying to get someone out of a big mud hole. It came back with such force that it destroyed the guys tailgate and I mean destroyed!!!
It tore the tailgate off of the hinges and sent it over the cab of the truck.
I remember watching a video of a guy trying to pull a stump out and the cable broke and either killed a guy or caused severe brain damage because it got him in the head. I was immediately very leery of cables since then.
The part discussing the aircraft on a US carrier is a couple of decades out of date. The US Navy quit using the F-14 Tomcat about 20 years ago. The HMS Queen Elizabeth & HMS Prince of Wales are both about as big as the USS Ford class carriers.
Yeah, the HMS Queen Elizabeth & HMS Prince of Wales are about 65% of the size of the USS Gerald R. Ford, so both of them together are about as big as the USS Gerald R. Ford. Roughly 20% larger, in fact.
Fun fact: The Shinano was constructed on the partially built hull of the sister ship to the Yamato and Musashi, the largest battleships in history, and at the time, the largest ships ever built.
As somebody else said - this video is decades out of date when it comes to the current aircraft deployed with the airwing.
But it does give you a general idea of the different role-types of aircraft on board.
Was on the USS Midway in early 80's. New skipper said typhoon and we are gonna test the ship. I was walking between the crease (floor/bulkhead), lost a sponson and a boat. But that great lady made it. Why "Lady?" they are tough!!! And we must have respect.
Look for videos about carrier flight deck operations. I was assigned aboard the USS Carl Vinson years ago and occasionally the air bosses would let us up topside to watch deck ops. Despite being aboard a carrier for 22 months, I was always in awe of the the choreography of the handlers, fuelers, cat guys, and plane captains.
I volunteer on the USS Hornet museum. There are five retired aircraft carriers around the country that are museums that the public can tour
If you're ever out in San Diego, definitely check out the U.S.S. Midway (CV-41.) The Midway, which of course is open for guided and self-guided tours) was the lead ship of its class and served two tours of combat duty in Vietnam. The flight deck has video presentations available as well as Vietnam and post-Vietnam aircraft. Because the Midway was on active duty into 1991, there are still many sailors who assist tourists with questions and relate their own experiences. As an oddity, the flight deck once hosted a basketball match between the Syracuse University and California State University, San Diego squads.
I recently went visited USS Lexington in Texas. I learned that earlier this year they hosted a professional bull riding event on the flight deck. They even hoisted some of the museum aircraft up above the event.
Recommend, The USS MIDWAY Museum in San Diego is a decommissioned real WWII to Vietnam Carrier. It's completely fascinating.
The USS Midway is one of the top museums in California!
And if in Texas the USS Lexington is in Corpus Christy.
I was stationed on the USS Nimitz from 1980 to 1983. Nimitz was everything, and more, of what this is saying!
The #3. The F14 tomcat,the plane used in the first top gun, was retired many years ago.
if you ever wanted to board a carrier and see one, they have the USS Midway docked in San Diego that is now a museum
Wood pulp and ice is called pykrete. It is a very strong material that melts a lot slower than normal ice.
Mark 3:51. For the movie, "Silent Running", the lead spaceship was named, "American Airlines Space Freighter Valley Forge", because the movie makers were able to lease the soon to be scrapped, retired aircraft carrier, "Valley Forge", and use the interior of it as the interior of their fictional ship. They didn't need to do much in modifications, so it saved them money! By serendipity, the rest of the fictional fleet was named after other national parks, to stay with the theme.
The CV was named for a battle won by America, and the battlefield became a national park.
The 1960s movie, "Batman", had the titular character remarking about how the team lead by, "Penguin", was able to legally buy a surplus submarine! Penguin, made it look more like the swimming bird too. 🐧
Mark 3:51. "Paramount", spent enough money to convince the, USN, to let them use the, USS Ranger, as a stand-in for the deployed, USS Enterprise CVN-65. For me, visually, there were some quibbles about the size difference, and other details. ⚓
Another cool fact is that the last American fleet carrier that was sank in combat was the USS Hornet on October 27, 1942 during the Solomon Islands Campaign in the Pacific Theater.
Some have been decomissioned and are museums you can visit
For scale a Nimitz class is basically the same size as the empire state building sideways
There are several decommissioned Aircraft Carriers that now serve as museums here in the states. USS Intrepid in New York, USS Hornet in the San Francisco Area (Alameda Island), USS Midway in San Diego, USS Lexington in Corpus Christie, Texas, and USS Yorktown in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina
Wish the old WW2 Enterprise was around with her sister's.
Sawdust and ice is called pycrete. The Mythbusters actually built a boat with it. Its a pretty cool watch.
The snapped arresting wire is similar to post tension construction. The extended wire has a tremendous amount of tension stress
If you ever visit New York, you can visit the U.S.S. Intrepid Aircraft Carrier. It's a Naval and Aerospace Museum now.
The part at 14:16 is no longer correct, the F-14 Tomcats ea-6b Prowlers and the s-3b Vikings have been retired. The F-14 has been tired since 2006 The prowler has been retired since 2019 and the Viking Retired in 2016.
Yeah.
Was wondering why that's included in the video.
If you ever go to San Diego in California, they have a retired aircraft carrier named the USS Midway. You should tour the carrier its amazing how big it is. There is also a retired battleship near where I live in Southern California called the USS Iowa.
I was on a carrier for a year and a half. I managed to learn how to get where I needed, but it took a week, almost. We had basketball games on the hangar deck when the air wing was not aboard. It's hard to describe how huge they are. I only felt waves one time, but they were actually large swells that gently rocked the ship and so big that there was spray over the bow and flight deck.
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In my years on a CVN, I got sea sick once. We were caught in a storm in the Adriatic Sea after a port visit in Trieste. The waves were coming over the bow. I think I only got sea sick because I was still hungover from the previous night in town.
When was this video made? The F14 hasn't launched from a US carrier in 16 years.
My uncle and one of our cousins down the line, were on the same carrier, and never once saw each other. During the Vietnam war.
Sounds like a trip to Charleston, SC should be a future vacation plan. You could see the USS Yorktown aircraft carrier and visit Fort Sumter.
Saw the wire break on the Kitty Hawk CV-63 it cut 3 helo's in half and bent a pipe a sailor was carrying around it saving his life.
You know what the video doesn’t say? There’s nothing like going out on the flight deck at night, preflighting your plane with your blue-lens flashlight, seeing the lights of an escort ship or two twinkling on the horizon, then launching into the darkness.
If you want to see a small carrier, there is one moored and turned into a museum in the Hudson River in New York City (Manhattan). On it you can see an early space capsule and an SR-71 Blackbird. Wow
If you guys come to the states, you can visit Corpus Christi, TX and board the USS Lexington, or you can head to San Diego, CA and board the USS Midway. Both are docked and have been turned into Navy museums, and seeing them up close and personal can be quite the experience 😊
The woodpulp and ice thing would've been more viable than it sounds; it wasn't intended to be a normal ship, more like a tow-able floating island with multiple airstrips. Look up "Project Habakkuk" for more information on it. The main reason it ended up not being built, is because longer-ranged aircraft made it less necessary before construction got seriously underway.
Look up the footage of the hospital ship. They are a floating hospital, they have operating rooms and MRI machine. Check it out for more details.
HI James and Millie, I noticed you guys like US Navy and US military planes stuff. I just saw the new "Top Gun: Maverick" movie in the movie theater. I don't know if it's showing yet in the theaters where you are but you absolutely must see it and see It in theatre. The fighter plane aviation scenes are just next level! You feel like you are there! It's revolutionary how they were able to film it. They used real aircraft and used very little CG. And they put the actual actors in the planes and filmed their reactions. The actors had to go through three months of aerial training to prepare for the movie.
Whenever you do make it back to the states, we have a decommissioned WW2 carrier that has been turned into a museum in Corpus Christi Texas.
The wood and ice mix is called pykrere. You should look into some videos about it.. pretty awesome stuff if you can keep it frozen
We don't use the Vikings, Prowlers or Tomcats anymore. The EA-18G Growler does electronic warfare nowadays, and we use either F-35C Super Hornets for air superiority or strike missions
They used to give tours of aircraft carriers. When I was kid I went on a tour of the USS John F Kennedy aircraft carrier back in the early 90's. They may have stopped doing them after 9/11 though. There are a lot of places around the country where you can tour decommissioned navy ships. Near where I live there's a place called Battleship Cove, where you can tour the USS Massachusetts battleship, the USS Lionfish submarine, and a Soviet built missile Corvette ship Hiddensee.
Battleship New Jersey BB62 Museum and Memorial has a popular YT channel of her own.
We have the USS Midway CV-41, as a museum in San Diego, California. I’m an aircraft carrier navy vet.
8:59 There are several carriers-turned-museums around the US. If you ever visit a coastal state see if they have one. I just went to the one in Corpus Christi, Texas (USS Lexington)
I was on the Nimitz and it got pretty small after a week. Also, in heavy seas that thing rocks like crazy not as bad as a frigate but huge swells will get a lot of people sick.
Also, there's plenty of museum ships here in the US. The USS Hornet, the USS Missouri, the USS Intrepid. These are all former active naval ships that have been decommissioned and have been opened to the public for educating them about them and what they're for. The only issue is that they're not all in 1 location. You'll have to travel the US coast lines to find them all and even then you may have to go up a few rivers. But they're there.
Just wanted to say thanks to all the people who work behind the scenes to help make these videos.
If you would like a more comprehensive study of the sinking of that aircraft carrier check this video out. The reason they finally quit and sent in a Demo Team was that the cost of the weapons was adding up. (5:56) "Aircraft Carrier Sinking - The Only Known Picture of a US Navy Supercarrier Sinking"
There is a retiered diesel aircraft carrier that is being considered to be turned into a super yacht. It would have its deck turned into a gulf course. It's just a concept at the moment though.
I love to learn neat things even at 70 years old. I’ve found out things that I forgotten and things that were interesting to me about places, people and things. Thank you for what you do!
Shinano was originally supposed to be the third of the Yamato-class battleships, with the first two Yamato and Musashi already completed by 1941 and in service by early and late 1942.
Shinano's hull was largely completed by mid 1942 when news of the loss of Japan's four fleet aircraft carriers at The Battle of Midway forced the military higherups to covert the half completed battleship into a carrier. She couldn't be a fleet carrier due to the status of her construction, but she could be a support carrier (supporting fleet carriers by ferrying out planes and doing repair work, amoung other tasks).
Shinano was photographed only once, by a Ishikawajima Shipyard Marine Engineer named Hiroshi Arakawa on November 11, 1944 while doing sea trials in Tokyo Bay.
I was on the forest hall during the eighties while it was in the yards, We took maneuvers out at sea to test out the catapults and landing gear, my berthing was on the 02 deck, 2 below the flight deck, they were loud, I now have hearing loss
5:17, James literally said in his State of Mind a steam train from the 1990s. Lol,
There are actually several air craft Carriers around the US, that are set up like muesams, that you can take tours on, for a small admission fee.
When i was in the Marine Corp, several Marines got sea-sick on these. Your ALWAYS rocking back and forth. When your on it as long as we are and you get off ship, your body still rocks back and forth for quite some time. Thank you for the video.
My granddaughter served on the USS Dwight Eisenhower, around 2016. She worked with the nuclear reactors. They were deployed for six months in the Mediterranean and Middle East.
I served on Ike '86-'90 in M-Division(nuclear engine room) we deployed to Med summer of '88. I hope your granddaughter got to visit some great ports of call during that deployment and share some great sea stories.
@@whirledpeaz5758 Yes she did, a short stop in Italy then later in Kuwait.
Come to Sandiego and they will let you tour one. They do tours all the time, even I have been on the USS Ranger in the 90s
You can walk all around an aircraft carrier (USS Lexington) in Corpus Cristi Texas. I have taken my boys and they loved it. I have also been on a C-130 transport plane and it IS huge. Come visit in Texas or Dayton, OH for the air museum.
You can tour an older class of carrier in San Diego, California and North folk, Virginia. The one in San Diego is called the midway, I don't remember the name of the one in Virginia nor what the class of carrier is, but it is a really nice tour. The newer carriers are bigger, however, it gives you an idea of the size of them. And on the midway in San Diego, you can see the active carriers moored on north island from the deck.
I was on both the USS Ticonderoga and the USS Midway. On the Midway we used to go to secondary conn ant look up the exhaust of the jets taking off. I was in dental at the time.
If you want to walk around a carrier - there are 5 museum ships in the US,
and, sometimes, a carrier will be Open for Visitors if you are in the right place and time.
When you come back to the u.s. you can go to Charleston, South Carolina and there's an air craft carrier along with a submarine, a navy ship, a coast guard cutter and several more decommissioned military ships you can your from top to bottom. The carrier had something like 40 levels. It is awesome and eye opening to see how our soldiers lived for months at sea on these vessels. They even had barbershops and stores. It took a full day for our family to do the tour and the cost was about $20. This was several years ago though. It was also located on the ocean. Not too mention, Charleston is a beautiful city and they offer horse and buggy rides, which I strongly suggest because the information they give you, you would otherwise not know. Honestly it's my favorite place in the u.s. and I would love to live there. We always rented a house on the Isle of palms which is across a bridge from Charleston. Put this place on your to do list...you won't regret it.
The Vengeance was an oil burner. She entered service with the Royal Navy in 1942, and, was sold to Brazil in 1954. Brazil kept her in service until 2001. So, when they tried to sell her, she was no longer the HMS Vengeance, she was the Minas Gerais, and, she was hardly current technology. She was also TINY compared to modern carriers, displacing only about 13,000 tons. For perspective, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy's current carrier class, which is small compared to U.S. carriers, displaces 72,000 tons.
There's a piece of the resting cable on the deck that's 110' long that gets replaced after every 100 landings that's how stressed those cables are
Giving credit where credit is due - the Royal Navy's fleet air arm -
despite having had some real issues vis-a-vis they RAF in pre-WW2 aircraft procurement,
Were pioneers in developing carrier operational tactics and procedures.
They led the way with the modern landing light system and the angled flight deck - among other things.
If yall visit Texas there's a decommissioned air craft carrier (the USS Lexington) that's been turned into a museum at Corpus Christi beach. I've been there a couple times when I was younger and went on the helicopter ride over the ship and ocean 👌🏽 it's pretty cool
Have a great trip and stay safe on your holiday.
The comment about the Ford designers using exclusively 3D models is actually quite common. I was working on a design team around 2003 and we were doing the same to design a jet engine.
I’ve heard people mention the Intrepid in NYC and the Midway in San Diego, but there’s a third aircraft carrier museum in Charleston, SC, along with a destroyer and a submarine. Well worth a visit. I don’t know if you still can, but when I was in scouts, we spent the weekend on board, actually sleeping in crew quarters.
It's quite a stretch to say that and train engineer from the nineteen century would be familiar with the concept of a carrier's propulsion system. A nuclear reactor produces superheated steam at pressures and temperatures well beyond those of a train. It transfers this heat and energy to a secondary steam generator which then sends the steam to series of steam turbines which is connected to a propellor shaft and propellor to move the ship. Steam locomotives did produce steam, but the steam was relatively low pressure and low temperature. Regardless the steam was sent to a reciprocating engine not unlike a car's gasoline engine. In other words, a series of pistons and connecting rods in an engine block. The old timer would not know anything about a steam turbine and would be flabbergasted on how it works.
As for # 33 - Look up the “ice carrier”, and I think you’d be pretty surprised, because it was an ingenious plan! It was ice, mixed with pykrete(a type of sawdust mixture) to make it as hard as concrete, making it much harder to melt, and easier to repair any damage taken during combat.
The sawdust both acts as an insulator and as a structural reinforcement. Also, the US built "Liberty Ships" that were actually made out of *concrete* during WWII (to serve as durable, quickly built, transport ships. No one does logistics like the US military!
Fun fact the uss Lexington is close to my home in Corpus Christi tx and is a museum so cool to know it powered Tacoma Washington lol
There are actually a lot of US Naval ships (& large ships in general) you can visit as a tourist. For an aircraft carrier you can visit the USS Midway in San Diego, CA it has been turned into full blown museum ship. I’m from the Great Lakes region & there are multitude of ships you can visit here. We’ve done a lot of family weekend trips to take them in. It’s probably helped to spur my step daughter into her career path in the navy!
I have been on a tour of an aircraft carrier. I think it was on a trip to California. It’s definitely worth going to see.
If you want to learn more about Carriers l, then I highly recommend Montemayor's video on the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first Battle between aircraft carriers
In the late 1920's and early 1930's the US Navy built 2 "flying aircraft carriers"
the airships USS Akron, and USS Macon -
they could actually launch and recover fixed wing aircraft in mid-air - with what was called a "Trapeze".
Sadly, both airships crashed in storms.
Thanks!
I was on an US Aircraft Carrier called USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71). and at the beginning of the video you asked how it would be in storms. well we try to avoid storms like cruise ships. but if we have to go thru a storm you will notice it a bit. Interesting thing is there is a library, gym, movie rental (on mine I don't know about other). you can fit a full size basketball court in 1 of the hanger bays, we had one on our ship for about a month. you can get to one side of the ship to the other in under a minute. AND Yes you can Shoot off two planes while recovering one at the same time. There was a time where they stair stepped shooting four planes while recovering a plane and a Helicopter.
Library on Ike was under #3 catapult, required hearing protection. Same for TR?
Mark 9:04. Huh? Did he say, "powered", rather than, "propelled"? After establishing what powers such ships? 🤔
Oh! Time for, "Gomer Pyle-USMC" & "Green Acres".
Also look for the C-2A Greyhound flights. We called them "CODs" (acronym for Carrier On board Delivery) the Navy is phasing out the Greyhound planes... But that was often how my USMC unit was deployed aboard a carrier...we called them COD rides. 😆
Aren't they replacing the Greyhounds with V-22 Ospreys?
if you come to Charleston, Sc there is a battleship and a aircraft carrier you can go on...
I was stationed on the USA's very first super Carrier the USS Forrestal and another fact about the Us Navy is that some of the decommissioned ships like the Forrestal are modernized and put into moth balls as a Secret Ghost fleet Incase 75 percent of the Nations fleet has been destroyed
Random fact - not only must the cable arrest a landing aircraft, but the pilots are full throttle as they land. That’s because there’s a decent chance of missing all the cables and having to do an unplanned touch & go, which is called a bolter, and keep flying and try again. There are nights (always seems to be at night) when an unlucky pilot just…cannot…land the darned thing. For this reason pilots have to have a divert field on land available if possible. After five or six bolsters you’re ordered to divert. At least we did in the Mediterranean. I suppose if you have to fly in the middle of the ocean you’re out of luck, but we never flew when crossing the middle of the Atlantic back in my day.
The Enterprize is de-comissioned in New York! open for visitors. Enjoy when you come!
If you know anyone in the Navy, ask if you can go on a "Tiger Cruse". It's a short day long outing that is for civilian family and friends of sailors so that you can see what it's like when they are out to sea.
@Domenico Zaffora actually a tiger cruise is at the end of a deployment and can be up to a week long. I got to go on a tiger Cruise in 2012 and I was on there for 3 days from San Diego California to Bremerton Washington. What you were talking about is just a family day on the ship where they go out cruise around a little bit and then come back into port all in the same day.
If you guys ever visit America I suggest San Diego California if you want to walk around an Aircraft Carrier. The USS Midway is now a static display you can tour for about $20. You can walk all of the deck, hanger bay and crew areas with a self guided tour that includes a hand held recorder you start and stop here and there to hear details about whatever you are looking at. The deck also has 15 or so static display aircraft on it. They are massive ships. A simple check on line will also tell you what active carriers are in port. They can be seen from quite a distance moored on Coronado Island. 1 or 2hr Harbor tours on rather large boats are also available at a reasonable price. San Diego is also a great place to see how the military and civilian worlds are inter-twined with eachother. With a massive fleet (and SEAL team training facility) based in San Diego, which is a rather large city, you start to see how our military works hand in hand with the civilian world. These military towns dot our east and west coast lines to keep them spread apart and to provide economic boosts to various areas up and down both coasts. It is impressive to see. San Diego has many other tourist type things to do as well. No, I am not from San Diego dept of tourism. Lol I live in Arizona 350 miles away but vacation in San Diego often.
I don’t know if you notice in that illustration the planes are landing wrongly. They are supposed to start landing from back to the front of the aircraft carrier, not from the front to back of the ship.
Dude Perfect got on one and went fishing and played golf on one of them in the middle of the sea.