GreyGhost Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 <...>Out of curiosity, what was the Enterprise named after? <....> >>> Clicky <<< HTH ... Gregg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PolymerAddict Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 Wouldn't they be worried that a ship named after Ford might keep going aground? I can see it now....Chevy Chase stumbling around the bridge.... --Will Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ikar Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Too late, Loyd Bradges already did that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SimFixer Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 (edited) I'm in agreement with y'all 'bout the current naming scheme. Ford was a good man, no doubt, but what did he do to warrant a carrier with his name? He was only POTUS for 2 years, VP for 2 years, and a Congressman before that. He did sit on the Warren Commission, tho. Maybe he had something on someone? ;) I'm told there was a concerted effort after USS America was sunk that the first of the next generation carriers be given that name. Something about "the America Class of super carriers" just sings! :( Edited July 28, 2008 by SimFixer Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kaburaya Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 You guy's think yours are bad! Our new carriers, when they arrive sound more like cruise ships, H.M.S. Queen Elizebeth for gods sake!!! Cant remember the other name but I know its just as bad. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
barkin mad Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 (edited) You guy's think yours are bad! Our new carriers, when they arrive sound more like cruise ships, H.M.S. Queen Elizebeth for gods sake!!! Cant remember the other name but I know its just as bad. HMS Prince of Wales is/will be the other one. Not the only ship called this, There was a battleship HMS Prince of Wales sunk by Japanese aircraft in 1941. ----------------- Edited July 29, 2008 by barkin mad Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cobrahistorian Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 The Army could rename the Apache as the "AH-64 Barney Frank". HEY HEY HEY!!!!! Watch it there buddy! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Julien (UK) Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 I always did like the British way of naming capital ships and not the US way, with the exception of the Enterprise. I also dont like what they are going to call the new carriers, many more If not Ark Royal etc then there are pleanty of good carrier names out there; Hermes, Glorious, Courageous, Eagle, Implacable, Indefatigable, Formidable. I rest my case. Julien Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mike Phillips Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 USS Chuck Norris. THE most kick *** aircraft carrier ever. That carrier wouldnt even need any aircraft. Just the fact that is was steaming off your coast would make a country give up! Mike Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cobrahistorian Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 I always did like the British way of naming capital ships and not the US way, with the exception of the Enterprise.I also dont like what they are going to call the new carriers, many more If not Ark Royal etc then there are pleanty of good carrier names out there; Hermes, Glorious, Courageous, Eagle, Implacable, Indefatigable, Formidable. I rest my case. Julien I'm partial to HMS Inconcievable. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
drhornii Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 (edited) That one wouldn't even need to float, it'd just walk on the water ... Gregg It would also not carry any weapons, just a loud speaker to talk to the enemy. All missions would not be original either, all 30 old missions that have been tried & failed....... On a serious note, I prefer the original names like Enterprise & such. Now naming ships for soilders who gave the ultimate sacrifice, that is cool as well. I believe a new ship was just given such a name. Kind a like the USS Sullivan Edited July 30, 2008 by drhornii Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GCA333 Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Hmmm, is the U.S. Navy telling us something? Reminds me of 'Stealth' with the UCAV. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pirata Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 Actually try again. The first aircraft carrier was named after a person not a place. CV-1 was named Samuel Pierpont Langley a scientist and early experimenter with manned aircraft. U.S.S. Langley was not a capitol ship. It was a collier, a bulk cargo ship that carried coal as part of the auxiliary fleet, that was converted into the Navy's first, experimental, aircraft carrier. The Langley was converted into a seaplane tender in 1936. Cargo ships, experimental ships & seaplane tenders are not capitol ships and would not be eligible for a name that is reserved for capitol ships. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LanceB Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 just found this..http://www.darpa.mil/j-ucas/X-47/gallery.htm Next silly question: in those CG'd pics of the X-47B taxiing on the deck, who is the plane captain or launch crew signaling to? There's no pilot! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mkimages Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 Next silly question: in those CG'd pics of the X-47B taxiing on the deck, who is the plane captain or launch crew signaling to? There's no pilot! Sure there is a pilot. He's just looking out of a camera instead of a canopy. I wonder, though, if in carrier operations, the UAV's will need to be ground steered by someone on deck. Would the remote pilot sitting in front of a video screen have the situational awareness needed to steer the aircraft on deck, even with signals from a yellow shirt? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Matt Roberts Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 One thing I kinda hoped for when they went naming the LCS shps was a reversion to 19th Century ship names like the Indian names that alot of the monitors of the Civil War era had Montauk Tecumseh Quinsigamond Tonawanda (funny thing is there are a couple of streets and such in Columbus named this!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monit...ted_States_Navy Look at the Miantomonoh and Kalamazo class ships, couldn't you just wait for one to be involved in something newsworthy and having the news anchors trip over those names in the teleprompters! Though nothing can still beat HMS Indefatigable as a tounge twister until you actually hear it said the first time (properly that is!) But instead they went stupid with USS Freedom.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
UK_tomcat_fan Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 I have a pic of the X-47 mock up at home, taken at Farnborough... shall post later Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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