Spent a couple of weeks on her back in 2000. Great ship. Any ship with 8 reactors is pretty bad-ass though.
Apparently, years before, there were a couple compartments decorated to look like the NCC-1701 Enterprise, but they were long gone by the time I got there. Just a bit of ST memorabilia in the Admiral’s in-port cabin.
Didn’t they revamp the entire “island” somewhat recently? I used to have a model of this when I was a kid and I remember it looking like a flat grey box on a post, with windows –and an odd radar dome that looked like a funny hat.
@...Howie Feltersnatch: I got to hang with a couple of Nuke ET’s off of there when the were flown in for solder school. Got told there are two plants you just don’t go around unless you like catching zoomies…
A couple decades ago, I visited Norfolk when the ENTERPRISE was in. One of the gangways read, “USS ENTERPRISE CVN-65” and the next one said “FLEET STARSHIP”.
My father was on that ship during nam…he painted something in the mess hall and they still have it up…told me some great stories about his time one it…
Boldly go…
Spent a couple of weeks on her back in 2000. Great ship. Any ship with 8 reactors is pretty bad-ass though.
Apparently, years before, there were a couple compartments decorated to look like the NCC-1701 Enterprise, but they were long gone by the time I got there. Just a bit of ST memorabilia in the Admiral’s in-port cabin.
An aircraft carrier with enough ordnance and firepower amongst all it’s planes to democratize the shit out of anything. :p
How long/wide is this.
I need to know, it is for a bet.
Will it fly?
I remember a kitbash I did quite a few years ago, with models of both Enterprises, the starship and carrier.
Looked pretty cool and, eventually, it burned quite nicely.
Not what I was expecting.
Excuse me, sir! Can you direct us to the naval base in Alameda? It’s where they keep the nuclear wessels.
@...CMoorehead:
Wouldn’t know anything about wessels, but if you give me some uranium I could get you some nuclear weasels.
Didn’t they revamp the entire “island” somewhat recently? I used to have a model of this when I was a kid and I remember it looking like a flat grey box on a post, with windows –and an odd radar dome that looked like a funny hat.
brb internet
Ach, I cahneh give ‘er nah more cap’n!
@...LukeV1-5:
1,123-ft.-long, 75,700-ton Not sure about width.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/USS_Enterprise_%28CVN_65%29_underway.jpg
Thought I was imagining it…carry on.
floating target.
exiledonline.com/the-war-nerd-this-is-how-the-carriers-will-die/
@...Howie Feltersnatch: I got to hang with a couple of Nuke ET’s off of there when the were flown in for solder school. Got told there are two plants you just don’t go around unless you like catching zoomies…
A couple decades ago, I visited Norfolk when the ENTERPRISE was in. One of the gangways read, “USS ENTERPRISE CVN-65” and the next one said “FLEET STARSHIP”.
@...Zoidberg:
ROFL
My father was on that ship during nam…he painted something in the mess hall and they still have it up…told me some great stories about his time one it…
I don’t remember seeing that in Spaceballs.