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07-18-2004, 10:51 AM
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US Navy initiates new drifting demostartion team!
Recruitment is up at various Southern California recruitment offices! 
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07-18-2004, 11:23 AM
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lol, a funny one, sure it's real?
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07-18-2004, 11:28 AM
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It's real. Probably doing evasive maneuver exercises.
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1996 Mustang Cobra. Vortech Kompressor installed.
Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
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07-18-2004, 01:22 PM
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that can't possibly be real Air craft carriers don't go nearly fast enough to try a move like that. especially since there is still stuff on the deck.
My uncle was in the Navy for many many years and I have 2 Cousins in it right now and all of them can tell you if your on an Aircraft carrier you are somewhat of a sitting duck, you have to relly on the other ships around you and what weapons you have on board they can't turn on a dime like that.
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07-18-2004, 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by T-Bird
that can't possibly be real Air craft carriers don't go nearly fast enough to try a move like that. especially since there is still stuff on the deck.
My uncle was in the Navy for many many years and I have 2 Cousins in it right now and all of them can tell you if your on an Aircraft carrier you are somewhat of a sitting duck, you have to relly on the other ships around you and what weapons you have on board they can't turn on a dime like that.
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Actually - that image is directly from the US Navy archives - and even though aircraft carrier are big, they are still floating vessels, and if subject to violent manouvres will roll, pitch and yaw subject to the sea conditions.
This is the offical image description:
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USS Nimitz (CVN-68 ) in a high-speed turn, probably while undergoing post-overhaul trials in 1994.
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They are not huge floating parking lots that are perfectly level 7x24.
That image is the reality in a full-port manouvre.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/68.htm
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07-18-2004, 03:29 PM
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If it's a true pic, and it seems so, I wonder how safe all the planes inside it are!! If there are some I mean...
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07-18-2004, 03:54 PM
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Originally Posted by TT
If it's a true pic, and it seems so, I wonder how safe all the planes inside it are!! If there are some I mean...
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Well - since it was during sea-trials, they might have had full weight on board... and that is why at sea, has it's place - is in it's place - and everything is lashed down. 
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07-18-2004, 10:42 PM
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Look at that body roll. :shock: 
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07-18-2004, 10:55 PM
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do you think they used the hand brake on that one? 
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07-18-2004, 11:23 PM
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07-19-2004, 12:16 AM
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Originally Posted by TT
If it's a true pic, and it seems so, I wonder how safe all the planes inside it are!! If there are some I mean...
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when i went onboard an aircraft carrier, they had lots of holes in the decks to secure the planes, and it seemed that (even when the carrier was at dock) that all the planes where secured to the deck.
thats an impressive turn!
what i find more awsome is submarines doing emergencey surfacing exercises.
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07-19-2004, 03:33 AM
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maybe it's keichi tsuchiya driving that thing.
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07-19-2004, 04:34 AM
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they are just checking the max performnce ..... :roll:
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07-19-2004, 02:40 PM
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Haha...nice find
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07-19-2004, 02:58 PM
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I wonder how the planes inside the aircraft carrier are???? :roll:
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