[Closed] So, which one flies the plane?

The one on the extreme left. Smaller pilots mean smaller planes and that's all we can afford

(see the Xmas Airfix thread for details)

Do the rest of them operate the conveyor belt?

So, which one [s]flies the plane?
[/s] takes the blame when the software that the plane uses to fly itself fails

FTFY

All of them

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Wot plane?

We have a plane?

Plenty of security in Pompy today according to my mates 😆

HMS Eléphant Blanc takes to the waves until it breaks down next week.

HMS Eléphant Blanc

😆

HMS Eléphant Blanc takes to the waves until it breaks down next week.

Have they checked if it works in warm water yet?

Some tried a scale model in a bath. Worked fine.. .even in bubbles

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Have they re-painted the deck (it was flaking off in the burning heat of a Scottish summer) or re-balanced the propellers after one was causing vibrations through the ship?

Kwik-Fit will be doing the prop balance this weekend, they will also recommend new brake pads all round and a couple of rear tyres.

Does she know that they namex it after the other Queen Elizabeth?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Queen_Elizabeth_(R08)

Does she know that they namex it after the other Queen Elizabeth?

Ironic really, the namesake was a virgin whereas this one will be ****ed regularly.

I am fighting very hard not to have my next job on board that thing!
HMS Elephant Blanc.........im still chortling:) i am going to use that in everyday conversation!

A few years ago I knew someone from waterlooville who work nights building that.

He said at the time they had too make some design changes as as it was someone worked out it would sink if it was not moving.

HMS Elephant Blanc

Well with a name like that it won't need planes as it won't ever leave harbour to fight anyone.

Why are there pockets on the back of the drone pilots chairs? There are no back seat passengers to utilise them.

Why are there pockets on the back of the drone pilots chairs?

Where else could they put their parachutes?

chip - Member
A few years ago I knew someone from waterlooville who work nights building that.

He said at the time they had too make some design changes as as it was someone worked out it would sink if it was not moving

He’s getting his aircraft carriers and sharks mixed up - easy mistake to make

Spend ALL that money and don't fit it with decent missile defence. Then again the F-35 isn't is exactly covered in glory either.

We'd of been better off with MK2 harrier and flying them off a converted supertanker to deal with the fuzzie wuzzie threat.

It'll make an expensive coral reef if anybody sells our enemies an Exocet or worse the export version of the Zircon or Shaurya

A few years ago I knew someone from waterlooville who work nights building that.

He said at the time they had too make some design changes as as it was someone worked out it would sink if it was not moving.

Not sure how a ship displaces more water while moving...sounds like a bit of classic shop floor banter to me. Just like the old chestnut about the frozen chicken bird strike test. I've heard so many different versions of that story.

You'd really not be surprised just how many **** ups that shipyard puts out...

Given that these are the first and last ships Babcock intend to build, i’m going to guess at 2?

Just how many armies has she got?

Two

One for each sleevie

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A few years ago I knew someone from waterlooville who work nights building that.
He said at the time they had too make some design changes as as it was someone worked out it would sink if it was not moving.

Not sure how a ship displaces more water while moving...sounds like a bit of classic shop floor banter to me. story.
probably talking about one of the sections, not the whole ship. They were towed round to Rosyth, so it might have something to do with the way the segments were(n't) sealed while in transit.

scotroutes - Member

Two

One for each sleevie

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probably talking about one of the sections, not the whole ship. They were towed round to Rosyth, so it might have something to do with the way the segments were(n't) sealed while in transit.

They were taken round on barges. Shop-floor rumour mill is most likely

What do those flags spell/mean in the background? 🙂

A few years ago I knew someone from waterlooville who work nights building that.

He said at the time they had too make some design changes as as it was someone worked out it would sink if it was not moving.

Not sure how a ship displaces more water while moving...sounds like a bit of classic shop floor banter to me. Just like the old chestnut about the frozen chicken bird strike test. I've heard so many different versions of that story.

Fairly sure a moving ship sits lower in the water. Not my area of expertise, but I am off to look for a paper i thought i read.

 

Can't find it. Wikipedia (I know) suggests only applicable in shallow water when moving at speed.

As you were.

Spend ALL that money and don't fit it with decent missile defence.

What do those flags spell/mean in the background?

I can only make out the first part..
Something like 'Waste of...

Lunchtime reading, have some fun..

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I seem to remember there was an incident many years ago of a ship striking the bottom of a shallow channel, but deep enough for its draught, while moving and it was down to the fact (unknown at that time) that when a ship moves over ground in a shallow channel the displacement of the water from under the ship generates lower pressure as it is constrained by the bottom of the channel so accelerates as it is displaced by the hull - so basically acting like an upside down wing. This lower pressure under the vessel effectively sucks it down and in this case it was enough for the bottom of the ship to strike the bottom of the channel.

But it was only an issue for large vessels operating in shallow channels not much deeper than their draught and basically meant they imposed speed limits to prevent this suck-down phenomenon.

They did come up with a hull design that eliminated this effect, where the shape of the rear section of the hull tapered away and flattened off to relieve the pressure drop below the hull - but no point designing the hull of a deep water vessel for shallow channels where they might never operate, for the odd occasion they do they can just go slowly.

What do those flags spell/mean in the background?

England expects that every man will bring his own plane

Spend ALL that money and don't fit it with decent missile defence. Then again the F-35 isn't is exactly covered in glory either.

The missile defence is on the aircraft...that is sort of the point of an aircraft carrier.

The F35 is looking very promising actually. It is still very early on in it's development process and its capabilities will expand significantly in the coming years as the development programme progresses.

The F22 suffered significant problems in its early development resulting in the crashing of a number of aircraft and the near suffocation of a number of its pilots. The V22 Osprey also famously had lots of difficulties in its early development. But they all got ironed out and those aircraft are now in service living upto their promises. In the end these things end up being far more capable than their original designs and intents set out to achieve. The F15/F16/F18 are far more capable than originally designed, their flight and operational envelopes have been expanded beyond their original intents and the same will happen with the F35.

The F35 will similarly live upto its promises within the specification it was designed against and ultimately beyond. It wont be as good a dog-fighter than the F22 or Eurofighter....but it was never intended to be or designed to be. It's an electronic stand off weapons platform that is also a pretty good fighter bomber, not the best, but it doesn't need to be the best. Its a jack of all trades, master of none aircraft.

The F35 test pilot I spoke to recently sounded pretty impressed with it anyway. Not perfect, but nothing they wont fix.