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Looking for gouge? Ask your Stupid Questions about Naval Aviation here (Part 1)

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To add some L-Class names:

Smell-i-leiu
Block-of-wood
Shit-pan
Essucks
Queerbarge
Bonny Dick (repeat from old school CV)
Iwo
 
Harrier Dude said:
To add some L-Class names:
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Still L-Class, but not the kind you're accustomed to:

Trashville.

Yup, we probably screwed up the Harriers launch/recovery times as we were making multiple hits between the Iwo and the Trashville to bring their laundry over, because the ships laundry caught on fire and they were unable to repair it until they went into drydock. And we still had about 2 months left on float.
 
The Babe (Lincoln)

Chucky V (Carl Vinson)

The Big E (Enterprise)

The Danger (Ranger)

Every ship's got one...
 
A4sForever said:
"THE" SHITTY SHANG .... :)

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The only one of the old boats I've actually seen. She was tied up at a pier in the Philly Navy Yard in April 1985 with about a 15 degree list. The flight deck was all torn up. Something about the yard rats stealing the deck boards for their home wood burning stoves. We were taking the FID out for sea trials after SLEP then.
 
JIMC5499 said:
"THE" SHITTY SHANG .... :)

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The only one of the old boats I've actually seen.....
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Now try doin' initial night CQ on one of 'em ... :eek: ... look at the landing area --- no room for messed up line-up on those ol' girls ...

The -27C's were SMALL ... even if they were "big" in their straight-deck, propeller days. The others I've been on were the HORNET, BENNINGTON, TICONDEROGA, and of course, the LEXINGTON. I was slated to go to a squadron that was on the BONNIE DICK, but that's another story ...

There's just no comparing them with the decks of today ....
 
That looks nuts. I can't imagine flying jets off the straight decks in Korea. I've seen pictures.

I am glad the angled deck came about.
 
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