#aircraft carriers

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THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER ROCK

Saw this video on tik tok and loved it so much. Of course I immediately knew it wasn’t an aircraft carrier, but because I’m me I did some digging on the effects of rough seas on aircraft carriers.

I remember seeing the pitching deck covered in an episode of Carrier, a PBS documentary covering life on an aircraft carrier that I refuse to shut up about. In a previous post I highlighted the effects of the pitching deck on pilots during nighttime carrier landings and just how TERRIFYING they are by adding a video from PBS Carrier episode Rite of Passage. During that episode a pilot had this to say:

Dude, all I know was I was in close and they’re like ‘a little power’ and I look down and saw the ******* back of the ship above me and I was like AHHHHHHH!!!!

But it’s dark and we can’t really see from that one video just how much it’s moving but like holy swear word tumblr won’t let me say!

And it’s crazy because to those below deck it looks a little different. Thanks to the sheer size and intricate design of aircraft carriers, there’s nothing more than a little sway to those on board.

I mean one wrong step and you’ll be hitting something hard I’m sure.

Of course there’s more to it than that. One person stated that you really just had to time when to go up ladders like when the ship falls off of a big wave you’ll kind of float up the ladder. He also had the following to say:

The North Atlantic is a bitch during winter. On the USS Kennedy 1976, in really bad weather, the seas were very rough. The ship turns into the waves, and goes up and down, no “rolling”. I watched 6 sailors, watching the TV in the berthing compartment, rise 4 feet into the air, and fall back to the Deck. no one even moved from the chairs. They were watching the recorded “Muppet Show”. A big hit back then!

Insane.

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ericfrench66 - Take-off on Aircraft-carrier

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This is how quickly USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) reach the eastern Mediterranean.

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Super Monster Aircraft Carrier

Designed by C.Taylor

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Keeping Independence on the Move - 1956.

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ROYAL NAVY

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Presented with zero context:

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USS Yorktown (CV-5) - Heavily damaged after bomb and torpedo attacks during the battle of Midway. While under tow back to Pearl Harbor, she was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-168 and sunk on June 7, 1942.

USS Hornet (CV-8) - After being heavily damaged by bomb and torpedo attacks during the battle Santa Cruz Islands, and with news of an enemy surface force approaching, she was ordered to be scuttled. However, she did not sink until the enemy surface force arrived and torpedoed her. She sunk on October 27, 1942.

USS Enterprise (CV-6) - Fought in every major battle and campaign in the Pacfic theatre, from Pearl Harbor to Okinawa. She was the sole survivor out of the three sister ships in her class.

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The first image is supposed to represent the rendezvous of the three Yorktown-class sister ships before the battle of Midway. The Yorktown in on the left, with MS 12 camouflage, Enterprise in the center, with MS 11 camouflage, and Hornet on the right with the modified MS 12 camouflage.

The second image represents the Enterprise, with MS 21 camouflage, at the Hudson river for the 1945 Navy Day Fleet Review.

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A-4 Skyhawks and A-7 Corsairs aboard USS Ranger

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FROM : emmrekz

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Where are the US aircraft carriers?

The locations are pretty approximate and dated to last week for some of the carriers and a few days ago for others.

by ThrustWR

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“Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier”

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The Royal Navy aircraft carrier, HMS Illustrious.