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2009-03-14 Europe
Mechanical faults force French aircraft carrier out of commission
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Posted by john frum 2009-03-14 12:35|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ]  Top

#1 Is this a design issue or a maintenance issue? Both require lots of money, I just wonder where the money isn't being spent.
Posted by trailing wife  2009-03-14 14:42||   2009-03-14 14:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Is this a design issue or a maintenance issue?

Hum, given the endless tragi-comedy of the "rocky" construction of the ship, amply detailed by the satirical weekly "le canard enchainé" back in the days, and the fact that the french army's vehicular pool literally is falling apart due to old age and lack of funding, I'd say... both!
Posted by anonymous5089 2009-03-14 15:33||   2009-03-14 15:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Sorry, anon. :-(
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2009-03-14 16:01||   2009-03-14 16:01|| Front Page Top

#4 As I recall without Googling, the propulsion system had a number of problems all based on the fact that what the French chose to do was good for a heavy cruiser but not good for a carrier. It was sort of a 'GM' approach.
Posted by Steve White 2009-03-14 16:30||   2009-03-14 16:30|| Front Page Top

#5 *Somebody* signed off on these items. In most countries heads would be rolling.
Posted by Parabellum 2009-03-14 17:26||   2009-03-14 17:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Careful. I'm not sure how long ago the French retired their last cheap and chippy chopper.

Which reminds me of a joke some here may not have heard. Three men were to be guillotined one day during the French Revolution, a philosopher, a priest and an engineer.

The executioner explained to them that they had a choice. They could go face up without a blindfold in which case, if the blade did not cut their head off, they would be freed. Or they could go face down with a bag over their head, in which case, they would be executed no matter how many tries it took.

The philosopher thought for a moment and decided that he had nothing to lose by taking a chance and going face up. "Sunny side up!" he said.

The blade was wound up, released and whoosh, down it came, stopping two feet above his head!

The priest seeing this thought, if God would save an atheist like that that philosopher, surely he would save me. "I will go facing my Lord." he said.

The blade was wound up, released and whoosh, down it came stopping two feet above his head!

The engineer thought to himself, two data points. I think there's a trend here. "Face up." he said.

The blade was wound up, but before it could be released, the engineer shouted, "I think I see your problem. There's a nail protruding in the channel about two feet up on the right."
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-03-14 17:40||   2009-03-14 17:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Satrap ( Persian: ساتراپ ) was the name given to the governors of the provinces of ancient Median and Persian empires, including the Achaemenid Empire and in several of their heirs, such as the Sassanid Empire and the Hellenistic empires.

Satrap is derived from the Old Persian xšaθrapāvā ("protector of the province"), from xšaθra ("realm" or "province") and pāvā ("protector"). In Biblical Hebrew, the word is spelled אֲחַשְׁדַּרְפָּן ahashdarpān (only in the plural אֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנִים ahashdarpenim). In Greek, the word was rendered as σατράπης, satrápēs, and was romanized as satrapes, from the Old Persian xšaθrapā(van)). In modern Persian this would have naturally evolved to شهربان (shahrban). "Sharban", translated from modern Persian, literally means "town keeper"; (ﺷﻬﺮ "shar", meaning "town", ﺑﺍﻦ "ban" meaning "keeper"). There is a link, via Sanskrit, to the warrior class of India, the kshatriya.

The word satrap is also often used in modern literature to refer to world leaders or governors who are heavily influenced by larger world superpowers or hegemonies and act as their surrogates.
Posted by 3dc 2009-03-14 17:56||   2009-03-14 17:56|| Front Page Top

#8 *giggle* So true.
Posted by trailing wife  2009-03-14 18:03||   2009-03-14 18:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Sorry. That was aimed at Nimble Spemble, not the erudite exposition of 3dc.
Posted by trailing wife  2009-03-14 18:04||   2009-03-14 18:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Mechanical faults force French aircraft carrier out of commission

Really oughta just make that the F10 key or somethin'.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2009-03-14 19:07||   2009-03-14 19:07|| Front Page Top

#11 New US Air Force Aircraft Carrier Unveiled

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-03-14 19:14||   2009-03-14 19:14|| Front Page Top

#12 Charles de Gaulle?


Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-03-14 19:27||   2009-03-14 19:27|| Front Page Top

#13 
Posted by 3dc 2009-03-14 20:20||   2009-03-14 20:20|| Front Page Top

#14 This call for some Top Gun:
Posted by ed 2009-03-14 20:40||   2009-03-14 20:40|| Front Page Top

#15 Any reason I got sent to Roadside America even though the last comment posted? Besides the almost comment that Val Kilmer is the DoD's latest 2000 pound bomb.
Posted by ed 2009-03-14 20:43||   2009-03-14 20:43|| Front Page Top

#16 Speaking of 2000 pound bombs, Kelly McGillis

Before


After
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-03-14 21:28||   2009-03-14 21:28|| Front Page Top

#17 A Retired Navy Captain friend of mine was friends with the Captain of the USS Enterprise where some Top Gun scenes were filmed. He relates his friends stories of Tom Cruise strutting around the ship like a little Bantam Rooster. Cruise made it known he would like a fighter jocks jacket with all the patches. The crew complied and presented him with a jacket with various patches from the ship departments, Special Services, Laundry, Meteorology, Ships Stores etc. He never knew the difference.
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-03-14 21:41||   2009-03-14 21:41|| Front Page Top

#18 ROTFLOL GolfBravo
Posted by lotp 2009-03-14 22:21||   2009-03-14 22:21|| Front Page Top

#19 After? After what? The revelations? WTF happened? She was smoking hot!
Posted by Frank G 2009-03-14 22:37||   2009-03-14 22:37|| Front Page Top

#20 Tom Cruise almost died during filming Top Gun. In the scene where he parachutes into the water, he got entangled with the shrouds. A Navy rescue diver observing the filming realized what had happened and dove in to rescue him. He was unconscious when pulled from the water.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia  2009-03-14 23:16||   2009-03-14 23:16|| Front Page Top

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