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X-NEMESIS-X
12-15-2005, 08:47 AM
i was browsing around tryin to find my friends old house when i saw this aircraft carrier it has alot of different types of jets on it including an sr-71 blackbird
McMaster_de
12-15-2005, 10:04 AM
This is USS Intrepid.

www.intrepidmuseum.org
X-NEMESIS-X
12-15-2005, 03:26 PM
well dammit the first thing i find that i think is cool is a freaking museum......this blows
McMaster_de
12-15-2005, 03:33 PM
keep on, you wil find so much more strange things at GE.
Appletom
12-15-2005, 03:54 PM
the first thing i find that i think is cool is a freaking museum......this blows

This is GREAT. I will be in New York this spring, and because of your find I will go and visit this aircraft carrier. And it looks like there is a sub next to it, probably also available for touring!
McMaster_de
12-15-2005, 04:05 PM
Also the destroyer.
sr2008
12-22-2005, 02:03 AM
I was there in july 2004, the sr-71 was not, but the battleship next to it is gone and a concorde sits on a barge that you can walk through, I did!
McMaster_de
12-22-2005, 04:59 AM
Look at their homepage, what they now have.

http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/intrepidmuseum/index.php
Monkey boy
12-22-2005, 07:22 PM
Cool find, i bet that was fun landing the SR-71 on a Carrier..... :lol:


I know, it was craned on, but can you imagine attempting to land her on a deak that small.
Monkey boy
12-22-2005, 07:29 PM
:confused: Hey, just looked a little closer, what's going on in the berth next to the Sub & the next one up (North) with the Cruise liner ? Looks as if the Liner is under Water ?

I think this mat be an anomaly with GE as there seems to be a high Def. view of the docks, but the main waterway is a lower Definition.

Ideas ?
McMaster_de
12-22-2005, 08:30 PM
The parking slot on top of the building is higher then the liner. So the shadow of the building covers the starbord side of the ship. Look at the beginning of the dock, there is a ramp going up to the roof.

Here is a photo of the docks, where you can see the high.

http://deploymentlink.osd.mil/news/dquarterly/winter02/images/comfort4.jpg
McMaster_de
12-22-2005, 08:31 PM
Cool find, i bet that was fun landing the SR-71 on a Carrier..... :lol:


I know, it was craned on, but can you imagine attempting to land her on a deak that small.



The biggest plane which land on a U.S. Carrier was a C-130 Hercules and also it makes the takeoff from it. There must be a nice video to this around the net.
Monkey boy
12-22-2005, 08:47 PM
It's not the shadow that makesthe liner look underwater, it's the light reflection off the water which continues over the ship. one dock south ( the same on the sub is in), there's something that looks like part of an A/C carrier, but it looks underwater. Zoom in & see
johntrim040851
01-22-2006, 09:40 AM
well dammit the first thing i find that i think is cool is a freaking museum......this blows

Just about anytime you find an aircraft carrier in port with planes on her deck you can bet that it is going to be a museum. When ever a inservice US carrier comes into port all of the planes leave the ship for an inland airbase, while the ship is still in the open sea. The carries never enter port with the planes onboard. Then when the carrier leaves port the planes return once the ship hit the open sea. I'm not really sure why but it is what they do.
Captain Hornblower
01-22-2006, 10:03 AM
I'm not really sure why but it is what they do.
Because the job for the pilots continues (training,...) what doesn't match with a carrier in port.
Gandolf
01-22-2006, 05:58 PM
Just about anytime you find an aircraft carrier in port with planes on her deck you can bet that it is going to be a museum. When ever a inservice US carrier comes into port all of the planes leave the ship for an inland airbase, while the ship is still in the open sea. The carries never enter port with the planes onboard. Then when the carrier leaves port the planes return once the ship hit the open sea. I'm not really sure why but it is what they do.


Let us not forget Pearl Harbor. Now all planes are flown to shore before the carrier comes in.
Captain Hornblower
01-22-2006, 06:29 PM
I don't understand that. What has Pearl harbor to do with disembarking aircrafts? No carrier was in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese bombed the base.
As far as I know even in WW2 the planes were disembarked when the carrier was in base, same reason as my post before: training of the pilots and maintenance.
Juggernaught
01-22-2006, 07:11 PM
Hey, just looked a little closer, what's going on in the berth next to the Sub & the next one up (North) with the Cruise liner ? Looks as if the Liner is under Water ?

Yeah lol the ship about 2 or 3 docks (or whatever) south looks like it sunk underneath a ship that looks similar to itself.
wani0402
03-16-2006, 08:30 AM
The biggest plane which land on a U.S. Carrier was a C-130 Hercules and also it makes the takeoff from it. There must be a nice video to this around the net.


The landing isn't a problem as C130s can slow down very quickly, but to answer your video request... http://www.theaviationzone.com/factsheets/c130_forrestal.asp - videos are found at the bottom of the page, small, but still videos!


PS. sorry to bump this thread