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B2's are so awesome, especially in person. I remember looking at it and thinking "how the F does this thing even fly?" The answer is a massive number of computers. When the computers have problems, the B2 falls from the sky in a 2 billion dollar fail. |
Pic from a few years ago but still cool. Would love to see something like that under the lions gate bridge. http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviatio.../9/1775941.jpg |
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A number of years ago a US aircraft carrier (USS Enterprise? I'm sure it was a Nimitz Class vessel) visited Vancouver, and it had to be anchored in English Bay because it was too tall to fit under the bridge. I also remember something about Vancouver's ban on nuclear devices may have had something to do with it too...Greenpeace hippies were going crazy. The clearances also depend on the tides, and you also have to consider the water depth at the bridges' mid-points. The water under the Lions Gate isn't very deep - IIRC it was a combination of the two which prevented the ship from docking at Canada Place. |
^The Enterprise is its own class. |
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I also remember all of the hookers on Seymour St were quite busy when the sailors were on shore leave. :lol |
wow! that woulda been something to see! any pics of it in english harbor? |
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No, I couldn't make it down to see it unfortunately. |
i remember an IOWA class battle ship visited vancouver a while back... i think it was early 90's late 80's... i remember my dad taking a pic from stanley park. that thing is massive. bought dad this kit today..: http://www.cybermodeler.net/hobby/ki...2841_title.jpg |
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scroll halfway down to see the USS Coral Sea go under the bridge and if you say she isn't modern, than you will have to check her Wiki Page, in which she was only decommissioned in the 90s also check that she draws 11.0M of water and the USS Nimitz only draws 11.3M of water, they both stand the same height from waterline to top of navigation mast. so i would assume this actually has to do more with the nuclear thing than the actual restrictions of the Lions Gate Bridge or the First Narrows of Vancouver Harbour |
The USS Ronald Reagan, a Nimitz-class nuclear carrier, was just in Victoria in June for the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Navy. Posted via RS Mobile EDIT - If you haven't seen it, check out the PBS 10 part series 'Carrier'. A crew documents a 6 month deployment of the USS Nimitz in '05 during Operation Iraqi Freedom and it is very interesting. You can find it on various torrent sites. |
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awesome mirage 2000 video |
Ah, yes. That's a good video, gives me goosebumps every time. |
funny how nobody seemed to have noticed the russians have a 5th gen fighter out.. http://www.sawf.org/Newsphotos/Blogp..._Fighter_D.jpg speaking of mirages... this video was pretty nuts: |
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I'm a big fan of the f-18s then and f-22 now but this bad boy is what got me into airplanes. http://i439.photobucket.com/albums/q...oir-82/F14.jpg http://i439.photobucket.com/albums/q...l-sunrise2.jpg Even in retirement, they're still so sexy in their own way |
Too much technology in this thread, let's bring it back to Canada's level. C-130 fogged right in - Resolute Bay, Nunavut http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jft8cHtyPSs/TR...0/IMG_1046.jpg I forget which country these (trainers maybe?) came from, but they were flying them over from overseas. Taken in our hanger in Iqaluit NU. I beleive they were from some middle eastern country. http://lh3.ggpht.com/_jft8cHtyPSs/TR...0/IMG_1521.jpg |
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