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 seasick |
Kitty Hawk taking waves over the flight deck |
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Posts: 4539 (28-Mar-2008 05:02:47) |
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Posts: 575 (29-Mar-2008 00:23:10) |
Impressive.... however i would hate to stand on that bow lol....
Question tho... should the flight deck be clear during heavy storm ? |
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Posts: 4178 (29-Mar-2008 15:04:46) |
There isn't enough room in the hangar for all the airwing's aircraft. In really bad weather, they use a "storm spot" that packs all the
on-deck aircraft into the center of the flight deck to keep them clear of breaking waves and lots of chain tie-downs to keep them there.
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Posts: 96 (29-Mar-2008 23:25:02) |
apparently, that little Sea Sprite was left out there before they realized how bad the breakers would be.
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Posts: 758 (30-Mar-2008 04:35:43) |
Could have also been a rogue wave. After the large set it looks like the seas ahead were a bit smaller.
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Posts: 2875 (30-Mar-2008 07:24:18) |
Gunnersmate04 wrote: SH-60 Seahawk, not SH-3 Seasprite. You can see the tail planes in the down position clearly.
Why they left the SH-60 out there is indeed a question. Perhaps it was giving them a real maintenance problem, and they felt it better to allow it to get dunked so it could be sent to depot repair for in-depth cleaning (where the other problems would also be sorted out) and get a replacement sent out immediately? |
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Posts: 14 (30-Mar-2008 23:43:21) |
Would rather be there than on one of her escorts.
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Posts: 3483 ( 1-Apr-2008 23:56:33) |
yee - haw!!
fun times. On Indy a few years back we got hammered like that in the North Atlantic for 4 days. Brutal. And then a few years later on Midway we didn't quite evade a Typhoon - lots of "sub time"!
Republican; because not everyone can be on welfare.
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Posts: 4546 ( 2-Apr-2008 19:33:16) |
Could you imagine what it would be like if the Hurricane bow hadn't been adopted?
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Posts: 3484 ( 2-Apr-2008 22:27:30) |
seasick wrote: a lot of ships in WWII got beat up pretty badly because of that. ADM Halsey found that out the hard way.
Republican; because not everyone can be on welfare.
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Posts: 578 ( 3-Apr-2008 18:30:12) |
OK but what ship did it had it bow ripped up and force the navy to have the Hurricane bow installed ? I looked it up on google and it keeps pointing at USS
Oriskany
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