Queensferry Crossing, HMS Queen Elizabeth and all things Royal Navy

[Titch]

Has it got any bigger? Did you go into town Greenlantern101 and see the new tram?

 

[Greenlantern101]

Titch I work in Edinburgh. The trams have been running for 2 months passenger free. Today was the first day they were taking passengers. And no I didn't go for a ride.

The bridge towers are getting taller.

 

[Greenlantern101]

She has been floated and is was being turned in the basin when I passed on the bus this morning. Ecky Thump its a big boat.

 

[Greenlantern101]

Marine Traffic Web site now shows the tugs have push QE into her new berth in the basin next to Caledonia Rd.

 

[FB]

Just need the LIghtining's to get an air worthiness certificate and they will have something to put on her.

 

[Greenlantern101]

IT FLOATS

 

[The Pits]

Rather fortunate!

 

[gethinceri]

Looks like she's made of Lego.

 

[Titch]

Just need the LIghtining's to get an air worthiness certificate and they will have something to put on her.

Lightinings......... Bit old aren't they? I thought they were going for American F35's

 

[Greenlantern101]

The F35B's will be known as Lighting II's in the UK armed service. We are due to get them late 2015.
The HMS QE will start active service in 2017.

 

[Jen]

What happens to all of this if Scotland votes 'yes' ?

 

[McZiderRed]

We go to war to get our boat back from foreign hands!

Possibly...

 

[Greenlantern101]

We will have built 2 by then. We could sell them to the Englanders at a good price.

 

[Jen]

Hoping for 'good will' then Greenlantern101!

 

[Greenlantern101]

 

[Titch]

It's a weird looking beastie. I (well himself really) come from the last era of Aircraft Carriers. You got flung of the front end, by a catapult, and you either got it right or you ended up in the water. I wonder what that strange upward bit at the front does.

 

[Greenlantern101]

The ramp at the front (the upward bit) is what the planes are fired up by catapult. The ramp is a british innovation that allows aircraft to take off with much higher fuel and armament loads.

 

[gethinceri]

Why don't they use a flexible bit, you know, like twanging a ruler off a desk. That would get planes in the air much better than that foolish looking ramp.

 

[Greenlantern101]

I can't see anyway that wouldn't work.

 

[Mephistopheles]

You do realize she won't be commissioned until at least 2017