4 Elderly Retired, but Historic Grande Dames...

[BusyBee604]

USS America (CV-66) was a Non-Nuke. It presently resides at the bottom of the Atlantic. I think about 8 to 10 years ago.

Thanks ATCS, spent an hour yesterday on Google Earth, searching shipyards/mothball fleets for the missing CV-66. The non-nuke "Super Carriers" (CVs-59 thru 64 & CVs-66 & 67), now all 'accounted for'!

I guess the next retirement will be Big E, CVN-65. I doubt she would be a candidate for a CV Museum w/ Nuke power plant???
BzB

 

[Lawman]

Thanks ATCS, spent an hour yesterday on Google Earth, searching shipyards/mothball fleets for the missing CV-66. The non-nuke "Super Carriers" (CVs-59 thru 64 & CVs-66 & 67), now all 'accounted for'!

I guess the next retirement will be Big E, CVN-65. I doubt she would be a candidate for a CV Museum w/ Nuke power plant???
BzB

Correction... 8 nuclear power plants. The amount of cutting they will have to do to the hull to get all that crap out would be incredibly prohibitive to turn the ship into a museum afterward.

 

[jmcquate]

I think this is the Admiral Kuznetsov and a couple of Typhoons at Seveomorsk

 

[Pags]

Correction... 8 nuclear power plants. The amount of cutting they will have to do to the hull to get all that crap out would be incredibly prohibitive to turn the ship into a museum afterward.

It's a two in one deal, get a tourist attraction and a floating powerplant. What's not to love?

 

[MasterBates]

It's a two in one deal, get a tourist attraction and a floating powerplant. What's not to love?

The three eyed fish?


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[MIDNJAC]

View attachment 10900 Hoser, here's your "Big John" in Philly, with FORRESTAL alongside just across the pier. JFK appears to be in...by far, the better shape of the two.
BzB

BTW sir, do you need AW to show you how to use the screen capture function of your computer?

 

[BusyBee604]

BTW sir, do you need AW to show you how to use the screen capture function of your computer?

Yes...been usin' me cell phone cam to snap my 'puter screen, cuz I'm compudumb. Comes out crappy, huh
BzB

 

[Pags]

The three eyed fish?


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You mean Blinky?

 

[MasterBates]

Yes

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[MIDNJAC]

Yes...been usin' me cell phone cam to snap my 'puter screen, cuz I'm compudumb. Comes out crappy, huh
BzB

Nah, we're just glad you didn't leave with A4's

 

[VmiMMXI]

It's a two in one deal, get a tourist attraction and a floating powerplant. What's not to love?

http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoo...nowhere-would-require-the-carrier-enterprise/

If this was posted somewhere else on this website I apologize...but you're not the first to think along those lines.
Step 1: Powerplant
Step 2: Bridge/Tourist Attraction
Step 3: ??????????
Step 4: Profit

 

[rondebmar]

Sara story: darn near sank her on the 1963 Med cruise. In the middle of a big NATO exercise, with several aircraft loaded up with ordinance, an A4 practicing CCA's to the boat landed in the middle of a pull forward ...night ops, of course. The pilot (who lived) was somewhat exonerated. (IIRC, the Air Boss was rapidly transferred.) The ensuing conflagration, involving much fire around the weapons loads, resulted in a total of ten aircraft being pushed overboard. Two or three fatal casualties, a couple of men lost legs ...we sat down in Ready Five, listening to the twenty mm ammo cooking off ...overall, crew did a magnificent job of containment!

Had breakfast the following morning with the ships Damage Control Asst ...he told me we used 72% of our fog (foam). Normal ops resumed at first light that morning, to continue with the exercise.