Queensferry Crossing, HMS Queen Elizabeth and all things Royal Navy

[Titch]

Decaying Uranium and other radio active sources are part and parcel of what keeps our planet active. Unlike the moon. So we could dig a very deep hole and fire all our unwanted uranium into the middle of our planet where it could do something useful.
Or we could drop it into some very big holes on the moon.

 

[Dartman]

cider_and_toast, Lets just say I can't tell you even now. but you must have heard of satellites.

 

[gethinceri]

Are they they ones that hang down from the ceilings of caves, or the ones that grow up?

 

[FB]

Tights come down...

 

[Titch]

Yes but they have to go up before they come down FB .

 

[FB]

Big Betty back in Pompey

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10222670282170253

Couple of comments. Firstly, she's a bit rusty. Secondly, if you posted a video like this in Russia or China how quickly could you expect a knock on the door and then some years in a gulag with a battery attached to you testicles?

 

[cider_and_toast]

That's the usual look for a ship thats been at sea for a while.

Where those two big patches are on the sides is where the lifts move up and down between the hanger and the flight deck. Most of what looks like rust is just surface streaks caused by small patches of bare metal. It looks worse than it is.

A group of sailors will be hanging on to paint stages with brushes on the end of long sticks scrubbing and painting that in not time.

 

[Dartman]

One would have thought that with todays paint technology an surface preparation rust would have been eliminated, rust only appears where the steel has not been properly sealed and treated in build, nuclear submarines externally seem to have eliminated the problem though it still exists or did in some areas internally, perhaps it is due to where it was built

 

[FB]

One from the olden days.

 

[siffert_fan]

Astronomers warn 'wilderness' of southern night sky at risk from SpaceX satellites

Stargazing under threat as pristine skies over New Zealand and Australia fill with scores of Starlink satellites

www.theguardian.com

 

[gethinceri]

One from the olden days.

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Sunk by Gunther Prien in Scapa Flow, I believe.

 

[FB]

I love that Victory is still afloat in the background. Much more impressive in the water than she is in her dry dock.

 

[FB]

HMS Nelson coming in to port in 1936

 

[rufus_mcdufus]

Sunk by Gunther Prien in Scapa Flow, I believe.

Uncle of mine was one of the survivors. I vaguely remember him telling me about it.

 

[FB]

Some more old pictures of ships in the dockyard at Portsmouth

 

[Dartman]

HMS Victorious, difficult to tell the year but probably late 50's or early 60's looks like a Gannet on the after flight deck. That was the ship that drove me into submarines, you were just a number to enable a pilot to be catapulted into the air complete with his plane, pilots life expectancy was not that great then.

 

[gethinceri]

Whirlwinds also on deck?

 

[cider_and_toast]

She only embarked Whirlwinds and Gannets together from 1960 to 1962 so that narrows it down a bit.

 

[Dartman]

Look like Whirlwinds but not that clear couldd be Wessex Mk1s, unusual to see a fixed wing on deck in harbour the usually join at sea, by the colouring it's the COD Gannet.

 

[cider_and_toast]

Not sure they're Wessexs as the tail rotor boom looks too high.

Where ever they're going they seem to be sailing at Procedure Alpha which is the crew in best uniform lining the deck. This suggests that she's deploying somewhere. You wouldn't have the crew lining the deck like that for a routine sailing.

It could well be that she completed work up, returned to pompey to store up and prep and then she deployed. It wouldn't be unusual for the flights to remain embarked if the gap between work up and deployment was a short one.