nderwater said:Awesome U2 images and article >>
My employer is the only source approved by Lockheed for the manufacture/recertifcation of U2 safety belts.
In reply to 914Driver :
That's the single most beautiful thing I have ever seen.
In reply to EricM :
Which one?
The motorcycle. I tried not to quote the whole post as sometimes that makes things more cluttered.
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A British Vanguard nuke submarine returned after a 6 month run, covered in algae! How slow does that thing patrol?
No one built this?
In reply to 914Driver :
The Empire built a later developement of it.
For the youngsters in the audience, that's Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in the movie "The Thomas Crown Affair," from 1969. The scene was filmed (yes, filmed) at a beach on the "North Shore" in MA. The dune buggy is a mod'd Meyers Manx with a Corvair engine. That actual car recently sold for nearly a half million dollars at auction at Amelia.
In reply to 914Driver :
Boomers (the submersible kind) spend 99% of their patrol boring holes in the ocean at 5 knots trying to stay undetected by design. That's not going to deter your average seaweed from staying attached. To be fair, I saw this article earlier this week and it sounds like they were on an extended patrol ( 6 months or more) and a warm water deployment as well.
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In reply to 11GTCS :
Heh. I'd been rereading The Hunt for Red October. In the opening chapter, Cpt. Ramius and Cpt. Putin are talking about length of deployment: American missile subs went out for two months, Soviet went out for two weeks.
The whole benefit of a nuclear sub is that your time away from port, or anyone at all, is limited only by how much food you can carry for your crew. No need to refuel for years.
Gary said:
This is a picture that can't get taken very often anymore.
Pete. (l33t FS) said:In reply to 11GTCS :
is limited only by how much food you can carry for your crew.
1 other thing will bring them into port or to a tender. It's a gas they cannot make.
914Driver said:
I can't love the way the exhaust pipes terminate any more than I do. Man, its touches like this that make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
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