Daily Mail strikes again
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
https://ussmissouri.org
PDR
HMS Plymouth was a favourite too but after seeing her rusting in Birkenhead for years the end was the inevitable scrap yard.
GGR
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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.
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Ssh, we might know that but we don't want THEM to know that.
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...
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
Check out the world's first ever vertical takeoff plane! | Daily Mail Online
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Still, they have found the 'World's first ever vertical takeoff plane'
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.........
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But perhaps the Bachem Ba 349 Natter has primacy - unmanned first flight in 1944, manned first flight in 1945