Posted on 09/06/2015 11:21:23 AM PDT by PROCON
This is how one of the U.S. Navy's biggest war machines celebrated its first time on the seas after almost two years cooped up in a naval yard.
The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, an enormous, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, blasted out to sea off the coast of Virginia and put its tuned-up systems to the test.
Footage of the voyage - its first since fall 2013 - was recorded in late August and shows the vessel's huge engines pushing it through high-speed turns at some 35mph.
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Or coming off the catapult in the middle of the turn, doing a barrel roll.
LOL while I was watching an ad popped up in Chinese (I think). I’m the only landlubber in my family. I’m dizzy just sitting here.
A tarpon sport fisherman using navigation aides figures he clocked one in excess of 50 kts.
Not very far.
I saw BLUE WATER hit the signal bridge.
Way back around 1967 I was on an Army 1466 class LCU off the coast of Viet Nam in a typhoon. Green water over the conn. I watched a navy tin can off to our starboard, it was pitching wildly, taking green water over the bridge. Just as we used our light and asked if they needed assistance their light was asking us the same thing.
Maybe put itself behind an escort to dodge a torpedo, but dodge a missile???
Well, since we're telling sea stories...
In the early 80's I was aboard the USS Tarawa, again transiting the edge of a Typhoon.
Her flight deck was 90ft above the water line, with the signal bridge 150ft above water line.
From the signal bridge I saw wave after wave put Blue Water over the flight deck and white water inundating the signal bridge.
She only had 28ft of draft with a flat bottom.
Once we cleared the storm we had to medevac nearly 60 Marines due to life threatening sea sickness.
Raw sewage and puke was sloshing around throughout the hanger bay and the mess decks.
If from the Atlantic Ocean....Cincinnati.
I would be happy enough if they passed a bill that said that ships (and everything else) can only be named after people who have passed away. Naming anything after a living person is something an empire would do. It is unworthy of a Republic.
Lol. My brother went to nuke school, had a disagreement with an NCO and was banished to sea duty for the duration. 5 plus years at sea on a 6 year tour. Served him right for not being a grunt like his older brother. :-)
My daughter, who’s in the Coast Guard, would love to be banished to sea duty! Maybe not in the IO, though ... no place to land but Diego Garcia.
Hopefully starting at New York City. He He!
I was thinking the same thing. :-)
If she was doing trials the air wing likely wasn’t on board so she could really test things out. If the air wing is onboard the normal captain’s standing orders call out how many degrees of roll you’re allowed to put on even in emergencies to prevent exactly the scenario you mention. The tie down chains are solid, but they will give with enough force.
Also never make those turns when the CO/Admiral are at lunch/dinner...their plates and cups will tend to cause a bit more of a mess than the trays in the galleys and wardrooms.
OOD - USS Independence (’92-’94)
Go Navy-Beat Army
“...shows the vessel’s huge engines pushing it through high-speed turns at some 35mph.”
Back in the days before the nation lost its mind, that kind of information was classified.
I hear ya. I’m thinking the maneuvers that would force the df-21 to maneuver in response. Possibly setting the missle up to fail
you have not lived until you stand on the port quarter of an aircraft carrier doing a high speed run...
the wake comes up about 5 stories...
it is a surprisingly smooth ride...
The good old days!
Very cool!
When I was on the Kennedy back in 1976 on my first deployment on the ship, they sent me to work in the Chief’s Mess, which was, all in all, pretty good if you had to do mess duty, because they had good food!
While I was doing mess duty, the ship was doing sea trials after an overhaul, and one of the things they did was high speed turns like this. You can imagine we had to prepare in advance for it, and in the mess hall, they a large rolling steel cabinet that was loaded with glass dishes and bowls, and it had to be secured to the bulkhead.
It wasn’t secured well, and when the ship did the high speed turn and heeled, that thing came loose, flew across the deck and smashed into an opposing bulkhead.
You can imagine the mess, there were broken dishes and bowls everywhere!
Heh, needless to say, it wasn’t my fault, it was another guy who was responsible, but I don’t remember him getting in trouble. I guess it was just something that happened...
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