Makes we wish we do the peace time painting... "great white fleet" and all
that
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>From my T989
On Sep 9, 2012 12:05 PM, <> wrote:
> **
>
>
> By the way, I LOVE the way that the QE and PoW ship's crests are painted
> on their bulbous bow assemblies. That is classy, in a way that we have
> never gotten the hang of over here.
>
> The best aviation and military history magazines are still British and
> Japanese. We (US) still publish that stuff as if it were "Tiger Beat" or
> "Vogue," worthy only of newsprint paper.
>
> Someone is going to throw me off this list any second...
>
> Nice knowing you!
>
> Dave
>
> >
> > Yes, I'm looking forward to seeing QE afloat, and visiting her at
> > Portsmouth Navy Days 2017/18 (ish). All we need is Lockheed-Martin to
> keep
> > the F-35 on schedule.
> >
> > I feel submarines are closer to Traveller ships, much more constricted,
> > unlike the expansive new generation of ships' interiors.
> >
> > Martin.
> >
> > --- In , dcndcn13@... wrote:
> >>
> >> It seems like CVF is far enough along that at least one of them will
> >> actually touch salt water, unlike the last CVA-01 QE and PoW, which is a
> >> good thing. I really want to see those CVFs splitting water.
> >>
> >> BAE has taken over a lot of US Navy efforts in the past few years.
> >> Several
> >> former co-workers of mine are now working for BAE writing training for
> >> US
> >> Navy gun mounts, manufactured by BAE subsidiaries here in the US.
> >>
> >> This is related to TNE because spaceships are just alternate reality
> >> real
> >> ships, and in the game we get to make sure they actually get "built"
> >> instead of cancelled.
> >>
> >> Dave
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
that
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>From my T989
On Sep 9, 2012 12:05 PM, <> wrote:
> **
>
>
> By the way, I LOVE the way that the QE and PoW ship's crests are painted
> on their bulbous bow assemblies. That is classy, in a way that we have
> never gotten the hang of over here.
>
> The best aviation and military history magazines are still British and
> Japanese. We (US) still publish that stuff as if it were "Tiger Beat" or
> "Vogue," worthy only of newsprint paper.
>
> Someone is going to throw me off this list any second...
>
> Nice knowing you!
>
> Dave
>
> >
> > Yes, I'm looking forward to seeing QE afloat, and visiting her at
> > Portsmouth Navy Days 2017/18 (ish). All we need is Lockheed-Martin to
> keep
> > the F-35 on schedule.
> >
> > I feel submarines are closer to Traveller ships, much more constricted,
> > unlike the expansive new generation of ships' interiors.
> >
> > Martin.
> >
> > --- In , dcndcn13@... wrote:
> >>
> >> It seems like CVF is far enough along that at least one of them will
> >> actually touch salt water, unlike the last CVA-01 QE and PoW, which is a
> >> good thing. I really want to see those CVFs splitting water.
> >>
> >> BAE has taken over a lot of US Navy efforts in the past few years.
> >> Several
> >> former co-workers of mine are now working for BAE writing training for
> >> US
> >> Navy gun mounts, manufactured by BAE subsidiaries here in the US.
> >>
> >> This is related to TNE because spaceships are just alternate reality
> >> real
> >> ships, and in the game we get to make sure they actually get "built"
> >> instead of cancelled.
> >>
> >> Dave
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>