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Reply #1215 on: July 05, 2020, 09:56:25 AM

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Reply #1216 on: July 05, 2020, 09:57:32 AM
Was she the one Godzilla took a crap on before he ate Tokyo? Get it? Kaga---Kaka?   :go-on:

We have several "funny" threads. This doesn't belong in any of them.

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Reply #1217 on: July 05, 2020, 04:06:40 PM
Many moons ago, a graduate of the Naval Academy mentioned that in the back of Bancroft Hall, there was an oversized file cabinet filled with models of ships.
A bunch had a note on the bottom "collection of Fletcher Pratt".
Wonder if they've been saved,?

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"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.


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Reply #1218 on: July 05, 2020, 11:48:45 PM
Forgive me for not knowing the, "funny" threads from the, "unfunny" ones. I was actually going for, "corny". Whenever I see a picture of Bill Murray's face on a Schwarzenegger move poster, I automatically think, "corny". My bad.

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Reply #1219 on: July 06, 2020, 12:02:24 AM
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Reply #1220 on: July 06, 2020, 10:34:00 AM

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Reply #1221 on: July 06, 2020, 03:59:43 PM
Nice!

The R34's accomplishments usually get overshadowed by the sad fate of the R101, much the way the highly successful Graf Zeppelin is less well known than the doomed Hindenburg.

Speaking of the latter two, there was even a Hindenburg design-based Graf Zeppelin II, also hardly remembered. It was used for propaganda flights and for pre-war electronic espionage, especially of Britain's Chain Home radar.

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Reply #1222 on: July 07, 2020, 04:05:44 PM
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UK Carrier Strike Group 21 (CSG21) Deployment Composition



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Reply #1223 on: July 07, 2020, 05:05:44 PM
Honestly, that kind of looks a bit short of ships. What is that - two destroyers and a frigate?

What's the normal composition of a carrier group?

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US Carrier Strike Force
1 Super Carrier
Carrier Air Wing (9 squadrons)
2 Aegis Missile Cruisers
2-3 Destroyers
2 SSNs
Oiler and Supply ship


I guess destroyers etc can do much more than they used to so need less.
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Reply #1224 on: July 07, 2020, 07:11:24 PM

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.


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Reply #1225 on: July 08, 2020, 06:01:13 PM

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Reply #1226 on: July 08, 2020, 06:30:10 PM
Those K-types were huge blimps. There's a control car from one on display at the New England Air Museum and the whole thing is nearly two stories tall!



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Reply #1227 on: July 09, 2020, 09:24:54 AM
Blimps were surprisingly sturdy.
One later class had a large air search radar onboard.  During the Cold War, there was one out over the Atlantic near Boston at all times.
Went through Noreasters and hurricanes.  Don't think any were ever lost.

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.


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Reply #1228 on: July 09, 2020, 06:47:46 PM
Blimps could ride out much harsher weather than zeppelins because the former have no internal framework to buckle and also less subject to sheering forces than the latter due to the aspect ratio of the blimps' length and width being much closer to each other than that of Zepps.

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Reply #1229 on: July 10, 2020, 01:03:13 AM
Blimps could ride out much harsher weather than zeppelins because the former have no internal framework to buckle and also less subject to sheering forces than the latter due to the aspect ratio of the blimps' length and width being much closer to each other than that of Zepps.
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