U.S. Airpower at Sea
U.S. Airpower at Sea By Richard S. Drury
Publisher: Concord Publications 1992 | 64 Pages | ISBN: 962361019X | PDF | 14 MB
Publisher: Concord Publications 1992 | 64 Pages | ISBN: 962361019X | PDF | 14 MB
If you have never been aboard an aircraft carrier, your first visit will be a surprise. First, the size is overwhelming. The USS Enterprise. CVN-65. for example, is 1.123 feet long with a breadth of 257 feet. Its flight deck area is 4.47 acres and its height, keel to mast top is 250 feet, equal to a 25 storey building. An aircraft carrier is quite simply the largest warship in the world. Next, the activity level is astonishing. Thousands of crewmembers make their homes in these floating cities and, particularly when air operations are underway, the combination of action and clamor is difficult for the novice to endure. In the bowels of the monster below the flightdeck, one is occasionally unaware of being on a ship at sea. Shops, huge dining halls, a post office, television and radio stations, library, recreation areas, work rooms - all have a life beyond day or night. The city lives twenty-four hours a day and the sky well above can be sunny, stormy or dark and go virtually unknown to those immersed in life inside.
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