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OT- China gets an aircraft carrier
So where do all the WalMart dollars go?
Straight to Moscow, that's where they go: http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/08/...acarrier.shtml Pat |
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:09:28 -0500, Pat Flannery wrote:
So where do all the WalMart dollars go? Straight to Moscow, that's where they go: http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/08/...acarrier.shtml Geez, the launch ramp on that thing makes my stomach hurt. I hope they cover the edges of it with red ceramic roofing tiles Dale |
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Pat Flannery ) writes: So where do all the WalMart dollars go? Straight to Moscow, that's where they go: http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/08/...acarrier.shtml Theres more pics of Varyag at: www.varyagworld.com. Including pics of her at Dalian, China. Andre -- " I'm a man... But, I can change... If I have to... I guess. " The Man Prayer, Red Green. |
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Dale ) writes: On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:09:28 -0500, Pat Flannery wrote: So where do all the WalMart dollars go? Straight to Moscow, that's where they go: http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/08/...acarrier.shtml Geez, the launch ramp on that thing makes my stomach hurt. Its a pretty good scale up of the British invented ski ramp that they came up with so as to be able to launch loaded Harriers from small carriers. Several other navies adopted the concept. But, the fUSSR was the only one to try it for large and supersonic CTOL fighters like the SU-27 and MiG-29. I hope they cover the edges of it with red ceramic roofing tiles How about some snow on it ? Andre -- " I'm a man... But, I can change... If I have to... I guess. " The Man Prayer, Red Green. |
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Dale ) writes: On 26 Aug 2005 05:03:17 GMT, (Andre Lieven) wrote: Dale ) writes: Geez, the launch ramp on that thing makes my stomach hurt. Its a pretty good scale up of the British invented ski ramp that they came up with so as to be able to launch loaded Harriers from small carriers. Several other navies adopted the concept. But, the fUSSR was the only one to try it for large and supersonic CTOL fighters like the SU-27 and MiG-29. I guess after forking out the rubles for the planes they didn't have enough left for a catapult. Well, its a complex piece of gear, more so for a navy that it looking to build it's first real fixed wing aircraft carrier. The Kievs were missile cruisers with a helo and VSTOL capability. Had the USSR not collapsed when it did, the followon class of carrier was expected to be both a nuke or partially nuke ship ( Like the Kirov class cruisers, 90,000 SHP from nukes, and a steam plant for 60,000 SHP more ), with cats. But, moving from subsonic YAKs, flying from a flat deck, to supersonic and heavier MiG-29s and SU-27s, well, the ski ramp makes for a good mid point, before moving to steam cats. Note that when the RN and USN adopted cats, they both had close to 30-35 years of developing and operating carriers, and the planes of the 50s were far less demanding to launch than Mig-29s, et al are. I hope they cover the edges of it with red ceramic roofing tiles How about some snow on it ? Perfect The new site for the 2006 Winter Games skiiing events... g Andre -- " I'm a man... But, I can change... If I have to... I guess. " The Man Prayer, Red Green. |
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:18:58 -0700, Dale wrote:
I guess after forking out the rubles for the planes they didn't have enough left for a catapult. ....Nah, we just wouldn't sell them those big rubber bands. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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Dale writes:
Note that when the RN and USN adopted cats, they both had close to 30-35 years of developing and operating carriers, and the planes of the 50s were far less demanding to launch than Mig-29s, et al are. I take it a steam catapult is a bigger challenge than I thought. Having seen modern catapult systems, they are definitely an engineering challenge. For the typical steam catapult, there is a pair of pistons that travel down a pair of slotted cylinders. The pistons are connected by a T-bar, which hooks to the launch shuttle. There are a lot of engineering issues: (a) The two cylinders have to have the same pressure. This means that the cylinder slots need to be very precise (in the current system, the slots need to be accurate to 1 mil over the entire 350 length of the cylinder, which is not a trivial accomplishment) (b) The system has to be very, very reliable, since a failed catapult launch usually means the plane ends up in the drink, or in a hangfire (plane at full throttle stuck on the shuttle partway down the deck) (c) There's a lot of live steam everywhere. For anyone that's actually dealt with true live steam, it's very dangerous. A reasonable overview is at https://wrc.navair-rdte.navy.mil/war...s/catapult.htm -- Richard W Kaszeta http://www.kaszeta.org/rich |
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