• 24 Hours on an Aircraft Carrier
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[video][URL]http://vimeo.com/31978619[/URL][/video]
So awesome I had to watch it thrice
real cool
Aircraft carriers, fuck yeah.
That was really interesting and really well done.
This is why I'm planning to enlist in the Navy after high school.
Cool... Until you go to war.
Wow up to 22 hours a day.
My grandfather was a mechanic on an aircraft carrier (the Lexington, it sits in Corpus Christi as a museum of sorts these days) and he said the power of the whole ship was just awesome. The catapults, the catching system, the engine, and even the aircraft themselves were all just the epitome of power. He mostly worked below deck on the aircraft (he fixed engines) so he wasn't exposed to most of the danger, but he says when you work up top, you could go from seeing nothing wrong and be alive, to dead, in a split second. Sure, the machinery is designed to be reliable, but accidents happen. When one of the catching cables snaps, it's a pure luck thing. There's such an incredible amount of tension in them (the do catch aircraft after all) that you don't even have time to duck. Hell, you can't even see it fly through the air. One second it's fine, the next everything in its radius is fucked up. Also has some pictures of when a jet crashed on the deck in the middle of a big storm and the fire was so huge to the point where virtually everyone was called to go help put it out. The pictures are from when the fire was "under control" and dying down but it still looks like a huge inferno in them. I'm sure they're a lot safer these days. It was as if when we first starting making them, we didn't quite know how to tame them. Too much power for men to handle, they're absolutely awesome machines.
The worst feeling in the world has got to be catching that 4th wire. I bet your asshole inverts itself as you come to a stop way too close to the edge
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