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Reply #1080 on: February 23, 2020, 05:58:29 PM
Looks like something nasty crawling out of a lump of cheese...well, in B&W, anyway.

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Reply #1081 on: February 23, 2020, 07:25:12 PM
That's an amazing bit of footage.

Popular wisdom seems to have it that all the Navy's zeppelins eventually came to some kind of grief or other but the USS Los Angeles served many years and was not finally dismantled until just before WW2. She and the German Graf Zeppelin are arguably the most long lived and successful rigid airships ever built.

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Reply #1082 on: February 23, 2020, 07:42:45 PM
You know far more about US airships than most of us, Wing. I post the pics to tease you ;)


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Reply #1083 on: February 23, 2020, 07:51:11 PM
 :bigthumb:

I became fascinated by the Navy's airships after building a model of the USS Macon as a kid.

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Reply #1084 on: February 24, 2020, 05:58:43 AM
That is great stuff, Stagger. They really are fascinating and I do keep looking for stuff about the development of new airships, such as the Airlander.

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Reply #1085 on: February 25, 2020, 07:46:56 AM

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Reply #1086 on: February 25, 2020, 11:26:56 AM
Great article. Thanks for the post.  :applause:

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Reply #1087 on: February 25, 2020, 11:56:09 AM
Yeah, very interesting.

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Reply #1088 on: February 26, 2020, 03:29:43 PM
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HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, Royal Navy, Portsmouth UK, 2020




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Reply #1089 on: February 26, 2020, 03:43:30 PM
Pretty! They look like they're not speaking to each other though right now.

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Reply #1090 on: February 26, 2020, 03:44:28 PM
Prince of Wales wants to step down from being an aircraft carrier.

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Reply #1091 on: February 26, 2020, 04:14:41 PM
The bloke on the stern with the signal flags is enquiring if anyone has seen any F-35's yet..............

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Reply #1092 on: February 26, 2020, 06:30:19 PM
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USS Mississippi in heavy seas.



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Reply #1093 on: February 26, 2020, 07:35:46 PM
I'm getting Sea Sick just looking at that pic.  :sick:

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Reply #1094 on: February 27, 2020, 12:50:58 AM
Just another day at the office.

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