Kukri
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Very fair comments. Suspect whoever specified the system is still specifying systems, for the same people.
UK’s biggest warship suffers propeller shaft damage off south coast after setting sail for US
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Very fair comments. Suspect whoever specified the system is still specifying systems, for the same people.
Bouba
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It’s not going to be a very encouraging CV....
Kukri
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If I have learned one thing, it is that the ability to create a convincing CV is wholly unrelated to the ability to do anything else.?
penfold
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Probably not, if I was a thrusting young electromech engineer in the noughties I'd probably not be still thrusting 20 years later; either gathering dust in management or a move sideways into wind turbines maybe. The desire to be too clever by half is innate in thrusting young engineers, so the cycle of life continues.
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The Q
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there was a big briefing for the Typhoon radar test equipment...
Young thrusting Engineer stood up and said..
"We have a new Idea, one test equipment .. Lots of adaptors so each piece of the radar can be tested on it.." (or words to that effect)
Whereupon there was a groan from the audience...
That's what they introduced with the Tornado aircraft..
The biggest problem was... bent pins on all the adaptor connectors.. I used to be good at changing them...
Young thrusting Engineer stood up and said..
"We have a new Idea, one test equipment .. Lots of adaptors so each piece of the radar can be tested on it.." (or words to that effect)
Whereupon there was a groan from the audience...
That's what they introduced with the Tornado aircraft..
The biggest problem was... bent pins on all the adaptor connectors.. I used to be good at changing them...
Kukri
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It is the business of the competent manager specifying a ship (and I’ve done a bit of this!) to gather together a group of keen and bushy tailed young engineers and others and point their thrusts in the direction of the best practical ship for the money, still embodying the most up to date systems and without losing any of the enthusiasm of the bushy tailed. So I blame the manager.
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mjcoon
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You can even have a CV written for you. And get coaching on how to be interviewed. But eventually you have to do your own bluffing!
Kukri
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Ben Wallace says she is “likely” to dock at Rosyth:
Defence Secretary says ‘likely’ carrier going to dry dock
Nice one, Babcocks!
WTF is wrong with either of the two dry docks in Belfast that can take her without faffing around to get under the Forth Bridge?
What is wrong with a French dry dock (3 available, all nearer, none have a bridge between them and the sea…
Defence Secretary says ‘likely’ carrier going to dry dock
Nice one, Babcocks!
WTF is wrong with either of the two dry docks in Belfast that can take her without faffing around to get under the Forth Bridge?
What is wrong with a French dry dock (3 available, all nearer, none have a bridge between them and the sea…
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Bouba
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For a fluid situation...nothing new has been revealed since day one....but it is a strategic part of the UK’s defense so some secrecy is expected
capnsensible
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Well no one on here knows. Best ask the Admiral in charge!
By the way, did you see the nice film of HMS Dauntless leaving Pompey this morning?
Kukri
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Yes, as a matter of fact, I did! Very clean and shiny.
Kukri
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A carrier with one screw and no aircraft isn’t best placed to do any defending, and I’m happy to tell our Russian and Chinese friends that the Forth Bridge has been there for a while.
Biggles Wader
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Fingers crossed eh?
capnsensible
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HMS Defender and HMS Diamond off tomorrow too. Best figure a way of crossing your toes as well!
Shipping Movements and Planned Diving | Royal Navy
Kukri
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So that’s all the usable stuff.
Lightwave395
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I suspect this current lot would rather stick pins in their own eyes than ask the French for any help...
Kukri
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Agree the stern tug is normal.
Applying Occam’s Razor, if she sailed with the starboard shaft u/s, as the photograph suggests, the most likely explanation is that she clobbered the starboard prop in moving off the berth, in which case something will have shown up in the shaft torque readings and it would make sense to stop the engine (it may have shut down automatically), complete the evolution, and then try again to see if it was just a fluke reading. Which pretty much fits the snapshot and her AIS track.
If the starboard prop hit something, the chances are that the starboard rudder could do with a look, too. I have known a ship lose the bottom third of her rudder, unknown to anyone on board, except that she seemed to handle a bit better that way.
Bouba
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I will stick to my theory that with the port tug pulling and only the port prop showing wash … she was turning starboard
Kukri
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For reference: the isometric view is from the builders and the propeller is from the UKDJ (so probably also from the builders)
Kukri
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She has twin rudders.