See the USS Stennis in action on a daily bases
vinny

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Aircraft Carrier USS John C Stennis launching aircraft |Tailspin

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JUST PAST AND COPY SCROLL DOWN AND OPEN TAILSPIN

Tailspin is a very common term on line. Here is a link I think you may mean.

http://www.tailsp.in/aircraft-carrier-us......aircraft

That is a beautiful ship, after my time so I've never seen her. I was on a big ship, the USS New Jersey, look it up hippies, and the Stennis has 200 feet on us....that is biiiiig. Carriers scared me so I avoided going on them but dang they look great going through the ocean, not as high class as a battle ship but still.

There are, I think, no more than 13 big aircraft carriers on the high seas. Neither the "Charles De Gaulle" nor the "Admiral Kuznetsov" are seaworthy.

You know who sails the rest of them . . . .

W.

Sailors.

Good answer!

Trivia: You can blow the superstructure (the part above the main deck) of a battleship completely off and it can still be navigated and weapons systems used.... the hull is made up of 36 inches of steel, modern destroyers 6 inches.

Who has a battleship?

No one anymore....

If you clicky here you can see photos of the one I was on...

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&sourc......aql=&oq=

and this is another ship I was on:

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&sourc......aql=&oq=

and my first ship:

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&biw=1......aql=&oq=

third row down first photo on the left I was standing in one second deck up (you can't see me) on the starboard side when they took the photo because we were out watching the helo and they usually were not allowed where they were taking photos from. That is Kings Bay before they built it up.

Santa,

Thanks for sharing those pictures.

I've seen the New Jersey from the Philadelphia shore, but did not visit it. I did spend some time aboard the Olympia, however.

The O'Bannon came to an honorable but no less sad end. She was the last of the Spruance class destroyers to defend our country, people, and freedom. (I'm sure you know that the Mameluke saber which is the USMC officer's sword is modeled from the sword that was presented to Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon by Hamet Karamanli after the battle of Derna (Tripoli) in 1805.)

Ships like the Simon Lake perform essential but usually unheralded and invisible tasks . . . it's interesting that her namesake was a member of the Society of Friends. I suppose, like Smedley Darlington Butler, Lake was a "fighting Quaker."

W.

Yeah.... The New Jersey was a beautiful ship but inside it was still WW2 style, passageways ran right through bearthing (where you slept) which was very dangerous, great steam plant though. The O'Bannon was a great ship to be on. Rode great, well designed, really a nice ship. The Simon Lake was a barge basically with special capabilities. We were the first blue water ship to have women on board. Yes the tenders performed a very important role and we never got the glory. Rode like a lame duck at best, at worse she dang near rolled over every time a wave kicked up cuz she was so top heavy with the cranes.

Were you Navy Woland?

Okay, Woland, you brought up Smedley Butler, not me. You know what he said about war, the rest of you can look it up if you don't know.

Santa,

I was not Navy. My grandfather's younger brother was lost with the Tampa Bay and my father was in the merchant marine as an officer and a gentleman "in a qualified sense."

Woland

Santa,

Forgot to add that my grandfather was in the Navy during WWI, too. Don't know what ship(s) he was on, but that's where he did learn how to be an electrician.

W.