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besilarius

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on: May 31, 2021, 10:02:50 PM
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2021/june/little-carriers-could?

The development of the Independence class of CVLs.

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Reply #1 on: June 01, 2021, 03:30:03 AM
They had a pretty good track record, all things considered.  I'm still surprised only one of them was lost in combat. 


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Reply #2 on: June 01, 2021, 01:07:08 PM
Pretty cool. It got me looking online for deck plans and I found this PDF. Interesting stuff, especially when it's all hand-drawn.

https://maritime.org/doc/plans/cvl26.pdf

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Reply #3 on: June 01, 2021, 06:42:24 PM
I took a semester of Drafting in high School. That shit ain't easy. No wonder it's (was?) an actual career.

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Reply #4 on: June 01, 2021, 06:51:18 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on June 01, 2021, 06:42:24 PM
I took a semester of Drafting in high School. That shit ain't easy. No wonder it's (was?) an actual career.

Still is, just done on computers now.
If I hadn’t made it through as an engineer, touch and go in 3rd yr, I would have been a mechanical drafter/designer.

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Reply #5 on: June 01, 2021, 07:00:28 PM
I took some AutoCAD courses in the late 90s, trying to find a niche other than working on an ambulance at the time. I took the 2D course then the 3D course and it was a lot of fun. The professor told me I should find a job doing it as I had a knack for it. High praise but I never pursued it.

The idea of these people hand-drawing precision machinery and complex systems blows my mind.

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Reply #6 on: June 01, 2021, 07:10:02 PM
I guess... I mean it’s not that hard once you’re trained.
And you draw an entire air craft carrier yourself.  ;) Probably a team of a few hundred doing very small portions each. Then there is a team putting intermediate systems together and then other teams assembling systems above those and so on.

It more of an administrative nightmare than a technical one.

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