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homicidal45 [2016-01-31 12:56:50 +0000 UTC]
More sad than you can ever imagine..
Rob
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County1006 In reply to homicidal45 [2016-02-02 20:07:58 +0000 UTC]
Wish I could have sailed on her. Only got on board once at a Navy Days.
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homicidal45 In reply to County1006 [2016-02-03 12:50:14 +0000 UTC]
Never stood on any Navy ship, except HMS Kent once at Dover before she went for scrap..
Figures huh?
Rob
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County1006 In reply to homicidal45 [2016-02-03 21:52:30 +0000 UTC]
Well I never got on board of HMS Kent so you have one up on me Rob!
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homicidal45 In reply to County1006 [2016-02-04 13:50:17 +0000 UTC]
lol It was a lovely ship.. Great to see it..
I do have some photos somewhere I'm sure..
Rob
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County1006 In reply to homicidal45 [2016-02-04 20:18:31 +0000 UTC]
Would be good to see them Rob!
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homicidal45 In reply to County1006 [2016-02-05 12:11:00 +0000 UTC]
I'll try to get some old shots sorted and I'll have to scan them on the PC to post..
Rob
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County1006 In reply to homicidal45 [2016-02-05 16:20:02 +0000 UTC]
Sounds like a plan mate! Andy
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Chiyawa [2016-01-14 23:19:46 +0000 UTC]
Sad to see another history sunk. But preservation really cost a lot. Sometimes it is just not worth the cost and time. I wonder if we can preserve her in another way?
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County1006 In reply to Chiyawa [2016-01-15 10:22:04 +0000 UTC]
Only in pictures now sadly. Although I think her anchors were saved.
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Stevie-The-Fixer [2016-01-14 16:45:46 +0000 UTC]
Some clever person produced flightsim scenery with the "Ark" in 4 places around the globe. It is glorious but also shows how much smaller than the big USA carriers she was. hard enough doing a decklanding on the USS Nimitz but on the Ark it is well scary - and that is "only" a sim. I already had a Buccaneer Mk2 and a Sea Vixen though so it is great to relive the old days.
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Stevie-The-Fixer In reply to County1006 [2016-01-16 20:37:27 +0000 UTC]
Yes - it is scary enough on the sim but great fun!
It was an addon I bought for Fs2002 which then didn't work on 2004. That left me with a lot of Carriers (mainly USA) all over the world but no arrester/catapult facility.
Then some kind soul made a hack that used gauges in any aircraft so fitted to make these work. I transmogrified all the cable catch zones so all the carriers worked as such again (plus a few shore bases for practice) and then faced defining 4 catapult zones on every ship. I got round that by defining the whole globe as a zone so I could theoretically get one anywhere. In practice I taxy to the correct spot and wait for the blast shield to power into place etc. With the launch selected from a small gauge, brakes on and all checks done it is only necessary to select full go and release brakes - whooomph - 140 kts almost instantly (or anything you pre-set).
Landing on is a joy with a catch (usually for me No2 wire) while of course going to full power in case of a bolter. Watching a replay we see 22 tons of fire-breathing tinware brought to a halt with all the sound effects then pulled back slightly, hook disengaged and wire retracting all the long way back. Powerful stuff! - bettered only by my Vulcan doing a QRA start then a takeoff and steep climb and just (ahem) over the vertical to roll back onto level at 3000 ft only seconds later What helps is that, as a long time R/C pilot I can also happily fly from in front looking back at an aircraft - a really great view of something like that . I made a Youtube vid called "A Vulcan Dreams" but it doesn't do it justice (or the intake resonance I added in to the sound files)
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RMS-OLYMPIC [2016-01-13 23:37:17 +0000 UTC]
Very interesting piece of history there. No matter how 'bad' they say a ship was to warrant it's final demolition, I still think it to be a sad fate. To think of all the people they served, be they a military vessel or passenger one. I didn't know there were so many named Ark Royal, I was only really aware of the one sunk en route.
It's a treat to a maritime enthusiast though to see these images!
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County1006 In reply to RMS-OLYMPIC [2016-01-14 15:49:10 +0000 UTC]
I really appreciate your kind comments and the faves!
The first Ark Royal was Admiral Howard's flagship against the Armada, so the name goes back a long way. I agree that it is a sad thing to think of a great ship, home to so many sailors, being cut to pieces. In some ways it's better that they go down fighting, like Hood, but then you get the terrible loss of life so there's no good outcome either way.
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RMS-OLYMPIC In reply to County1006 [2016-01-19 02:59:59 +0000 UTC]
You're very right. It is sad for them to be scrapped, and sinking does seem more of an honourable way, but like you said, all the lives lost make that just as bad.
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County1006 In reply to RMS-OLYMPIC [2016-01-19 16:00:14 +0000 UTC]
Hood is coming soon - quality is not brilliant but I thought it might be worth including as it is from the same 1935 set.
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