Reply With QuoteExpending a warship as practice or test target is probably most dignifying way to end career, besides making ship an museum. Another good use is as artificial reef.
It's better this way at least people can dive on the wreck and still get some enjoyment from her. If she was scrapped there would be nothing left at all.
Expending a warship as practice or test target is probably most dignifying way to end career, besides making ship an museum. Another good use is as artificial reef.
It carries the computer that controls the detonationsOriginally Posted by Hump
awesome pic, tks for sharing
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Wow my Favorite Picture of the Tomcat, thanks bd popey for sharing this and all Tomcast pictures
tomcats by choice - hornets by mandate
Thank you! That's what I do..POST PIX!!Wow my Favorite Picture of the Tomcat, thanks bd popey for sharing this and all Tomcast pictures
Hump..great PIX!! That smalll boat housed all the equipment to monitor the sinking. I think the remote links for the explosives were in there also.
In the US National Geographic Channel had an spiecal on the sinking a couple of years ago. Great show. Here's a video clip.
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/162094/898752
Thanks Popeye, it would be a bugger if the ship rolled, the boat containing all the data would be shot.lol Have a good one mate.
thanks bd Popeye, excelent to find good underwater images from the Oriskany
Wow, thanks Hump amazing Photos, now I am a PADI Advance Diver, so one of my dreams is to dive in this amazing place. I think it is every diver dream.
I really hope you get a chance to dive on her Santana and I look forward to the pictures I know you will post. lol I would really like to see a side view of the whole ship as she is resting on the bottom. Also found this site with some great WWII pictures also has a couple of the Bunker Hill and a few others. http://www.taringa.net/posts/imagene...%BA-Parte.html Have a look it's not bad.
Hump
This is a Question for Carrier experts, Does this was True???
and the Story is this:
Here is an unusual shot!
True story...
bet the bad guy's satellites went berserk looking at this one...!
( and it wasn't the Navy paying off a bet against AF!)
While this may look like a gag shot, it is actually a "transport of a transport" necessity.
The B-52 was in Beirut, Lebanon undergoing routine fuel tank cleaning. Workmen accidently damaged the bladder system and had to install the bladders from smaller C-130s temporarily. The plane was flown to nearby McCollough air base where it was lifted upon a barge bound for Tyre on the Mediterranean. Once there it was off-loaded onto the carrier deck for transport to Crete where the appropriate tank bladders were installed. It was then flown back to Beirut.
Military cooperation in action.
^ Nice
I wonder why they left the other planes on deck.
Notice those little color changes... smells like photoshop. And for transporting for change of bladders via ship? It doesn't make sense to me as aircraft mechanic, changing tanks in Beirut (what in world would B-52 do in Beirut?) to different planes tanks doesn't also make any sense, if they could replace those there why in world they would not fly correct spares there. USAF has plenty of C-130's or C-5's to assign to deliver parts and crew for that. How would they lifted that B-52 to carrier? If large planes are transported by road for anything but very short ranges removing wings is done always.
No f**king way. Total bull****!
The B-52 has a wingspan of 185 feet (56 metres)
The USS NIMITZ' BEAM is Overall: 252 ft (76.8 metres)
The picture shows them equal.
No way. There would have been A LOT more pictures around the net.
Plus there is no practical way to lift a B52 like that and put it on a deck. Have you ever seen a B52 in real?
Plus why would they have left all the navy jets on the deck like this?
it is still a good peice of shop work then
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