Daily Mail strikes again

[PDR1]

Originally Posted by MPN11

Having last year visited the USS Missouri [BB-63, "The Mighty Mo] at Pearl Harbor is was quite clear that they were having great difficulty in keeping her in a decent condition. Some areas, particularly the upper deck planking, were in a pretty poor state.

https://ussmissouri.org

Are you sure? According to the documentary film "Battleship" it only took a couple of hours and a few vets to fire her up and take her into battle against aliens - apparently she still has live shells and powder bags on board...



PDR

[GGR155]

Originally Posted by Ken Scott

HMS Belfast, Victory, Warrior, M33, Alliance? Shame that HMS Plymouth was scrapped but that perhaps shows the difficulty a private organisation has maintaining such an exhibit.

As Ken says there are a few to be seen. For me HMS Belfast is a must when in London. I highly recommend a visit.
HMS Plymouth was a favourite too but after seeing her rusting in Birkenhead for years the end was the inevitable scrap yard.
GGR

[Finningley Boy]

Interesting posts, especially Reds and Greens incident with bloat, but its depressing just how much the press (ok the Daily Mail) can put together a sweepingly inaccurate headline without first checking, on google for instance, if they may have got their emotive claims right or not. They need to stop flapping about deadlines and take a second or two, all it takes these days, to verify something. I'll volunteer for the job, if the DM's interested.

FB

[Martin the Martian]

PDR1 said:

Are you sure? According to the documentary film "Battleship" it only took a couple of hours and a few vets to fire her up and take her into battle against aliens - apparently she still has live shells and powder bags on board...

Ssh, we might know that but we don't want THEM to know that.

[Background Noise]

Still, they have found the 'World's first ever vertical takeoff plane'

Check out the world's first ever vertical takeoff plane! | Daily Mail Online

[Rosevidney1]

Oh, do be charitable to the Fail for once. IF they had added the words 'electric powered' they would have been correct!

[teeteringhead]

Still, they have found the 'World's first ever vertical takeoff plane'

Surely one of these (not bad for the 1950s!) ......


I think the Convair XFV (Pogo) on the left was the more successful, apparently doing some genuine VTOL flights.

The Lockheed XFY (Salmon) on the right I believe never flew vertically untethered.

Must have been sporting to land!

But perhaps the Bachem Ba 349 Natter has primacy - unmanned first flight in 1944, manned first flight
in 1945!


But was that a "plane" (sic) or just a manned SAM.........

[Ken Scott]

But perhaps the Bachem Ba 349 Natter has primacy - unmanned first flight in 1944, manned first flight in 1945

I think that's a typo - should be 'Nutter'.