September 21, 201015 yr From Navy Times Big E preps for final combat deployment By Philip Ewing - Staff writer Posted : Tuesday Sep 21, 2010 10:56:09 EDT ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER ENTERPRISE — Sept. 24 marks 50 years since this ship’s launch and champagne christening ...
September 21, 201015 yr An half of century , and for some of us Big E will be ever a modern ship, and only a year older than me .... Nuclear powered, enormous ship, eight reactors, 40 knots supposed fancy speed , initial billboard radars with electronic scanning (in 1961 a pioneer system, and a real failure. She is really a fifties ship, laid down in 1958 ), NBC protection, the 1969 Vietnam flight deck accident , a lot of fascinating memories about Big E,
September 22, 201015 yr The Navy without an Enterprise? Unthinkable! I hope they remember to save the original Big E's scuttles from the hurricane bow.
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