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The end of the Enterprise CV-6 verison that is

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Posted 17 January 2007 - 07:53 AM

FOund this one on Youtube while looking for something else

Newsreel of USS Enterprise going to breakers :(
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Posted 17 January 2007 - 12:20 PM

View PostA6BSTARM, on Jan 17 2007, 04:53 AM, said:

FOund this one on Youtube while looking for something else

Newsreel of USS Enterprise going to breakers :(

There's several clips there, including the Forrestal disaster. Thanx, I'd have never thought to look at that site for stuff lik that/

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Posted 17 January 2007 - 08:50 PM

I didn't know that the A-4 jet hit was piloted by Senator John McCain. I saw his tv interview about the incident - he was able to climb onto the nose by grasping the fuel nozzle and rolled into the fire on the deck and ran towards the forcastle. The first blast hurt him pretty good but he was able to get out of the way.

A hard situation. Fire crews gotta get close but the iron bombs they had on the A-4's weren't hardened for fire and cooked off. Lots of lessons learned from that one.

Here is the ALL HANDS article: http://www.news.navy...at/ah196711.pdf
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Posted 18 January 2007 - 11:36 AM

View PostFork, on Jan 17 2007, 05:50 PM, said:

I didn't know that the A-4 jet hit was piloted by Senator John McCain. I saw his tv interview about the incident - he was able to climb onto the nose by grasping the fuel nozzle and rolled into the fire on the deck and ran towards the forcastle. The first blast hurt him pretty good but he was able to get out of the way.

A hard situation. Fire crews gotta get close but the iron bombs they had on the A-4's weren't hardened for fire and cooked off. Lots of lessons learned from that one.

Here is the ALL HANDS article: http://www.news.navy...at/ah196711.pdf


I heard about John McCain's connection years ago, but wasn't sure if it was true or not. Man, what a Navy career that guy had. He was lucky to survive it.

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Posted 01 February 2007 - 04:31 AM

Geez , for a minute I thought you meant the current Enterprise had been retired ! In my ignorant Aussie opinion , the name Enterprise is , how to spell , synonomous with the US of A and as long as you still have a navy, I would hope you always have a principal ship called "Enterprise". :icon_bow: Its not just the Star Trek thing :rolleyes: , or the fact the name makes you think 'western free enterprise' its just a name that must remain in high esteem in my mind. I sem to recall that on 9/11 , the She was parked just down the street in New York Harbour , is that correct ? I remember commenting to friends that had the perpetrators aimed at Her and not at 10,000 civilians , then I might , just might, have had a little respect for them for having hit a military target. But I digress...

The current one is CVN 67 is that right ? I have a massive shot of the Carl Vinson (70) , can anyone tell me the name of most recent CVN ? Man I wish we had a flat top to park our Hornets on...if only to give my Harpoon Scenarios a little more teeth. Until then , I'll just have to put our Collins Subs up against them.... :superscare:

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Posted 01 February 2007 - 06:41 AM

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yep, someones a trek fan. Nic pic but hey ? 1280 x 960. Sorry is this off topic ? :unsure: Ok how 'bout this one fellas ?
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You like ? It appears to be by Marii Chernev:
USS Enterprise at the Battle of Santa Cruz (but only 520 x 370 ;(
October 26th,1942
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