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Reply #915 on: December 05, 2019, 06:59:44 PM
They could have fit them with catapults, but they deemed the cost to install/operate/maintain them to be prohibitive.


Steam, or electromagnetic?  I hear there's a design expert with some very specific thoughts on it...  :doh:

I seem to remember reading that they considered steam since the electromagnetic system had not been sufficiently developed at that time

The Emals system on the Ford is still a mess.

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Reply #916 on: December 05, 2019, 07:10:58 PM
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USS Lexington at anchor off Honolulu, Hawaii, 8 Apr 1938



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Reply #917 on: December 05, 2019, 07:13:38 PM
Lady Lex lookin' fine!  :bigthumb:

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Reply #918 on: December 05, 2019, 07:35:40 PM
That's a bunch of planes!  :o

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Reply #919 on: December 05, 2019, 07:39:36 PM
 :bigthumb:

She still has her 8-inch pea-shooters in that pic, along with the last of the USN's carrier based biplane fighters, either Grumman F2Fs or Boeing F4Bs (maybe a few of both?)

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Reply #920 on: December 06, 2019, 08:59:10 AM
Not much freeboard.

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Reply #921 on: December 06, 2019, 09:07:37 AM
Not much freeboard.


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Reply #922 on: December 06, 2019, 09:09:15 AM
I'm sure that you are well aware that I used the word purely in a nautical sense.

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Reply #923 on: December 06, 2019, 09:22:26 AM
I'm sure that you are well aware that I used the word purely in a nautical sense.


well yeah, but if you can sneak in a bad pun then why not?

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Reply #924 on: December 06, 2019, 09:44:22 AM
Everyone needs to wake up and foam a line to the left to appreciate these sea puns.

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Reply #925 on: December 06, 2019, 10:01:37 AM
That will have to tide us over for now.

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Reply #926 on: December 06, 2019, 10:08:52 AM
Brine on the puns, boys!

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Reply #927 on: December 06, 2019, 10:15:30 AM

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Reply #928 on: December 06, 2019, 02:02:00 PM
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Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) transits through the Strait of Gibraltar, Dec. 5, 2019



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Reply #929 on: December 06, 2019, 02:03:34 PM
Dammit! I was supposed to be notified if Puns broke-out. I hate being out-to-sea on a subject.

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