Just one sad note, Shatners response was to set the dogs on Collins, it didn’t do Kirk any favours.

Shatnerquake

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shatnerquake-Jeff-Burk/dp/1933929820/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243444604&sr=1-1

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It’s Shatner VS Shatners!

William Shatner? William Shatner. WILLIAM SHATNER!!! It’s the first ShatnerCon with William Shatner as the guest of honor! But after a failed terrorist attack by Campbellians, a crazy terrorist cult that worships Bruce Campbell, all of the characters ever played by William Shatner are suddenly sucked into our world. Their mission: hunt down and destroy the real William Shatner.

Featuring: Captain Kirk, TJ ++!*!+, Denny Crane, Rescue 911 Shatner, Singer Shatner, Shakespearean Shatner, Twilight Zone Shatner, Cartoon Kirk, Esperanto Shatner, Priceline Shatner, SNL Shatner, and – of course – William Shatner!

No costumed con-goer will be spared in their wave of destruction, no redshirt will make it out alive, and not even the Klingons will be able to stand up to a deranged Captain Kirk with a lightsaber. But these Shatner-clones are about to learn a hard lesson…that the real William Shatner doesn’t take crap from anybody. Not even himself.

“It’s like Die Hard, but instead of Bruce Willis fighting terrorists it’s William Shatner fighting other versions of himself…

It’s Shatnertastic!

There is one option for a dedicated mother ship for this class of vessel, one that does allow a full range of flexibility, from mid level repairs at sea, right through to rec time for the troops, even fixing the organic air components of the LCS boats:- I refer to the Maersk S Class vessels. (Image below)

As you can see, these highly modified super tankers c

The S class are container ships.

It was RN practice to call the hydraulic catapults on carriers ‘Accelerators’ to differentiate them from the ‘Catapults’ fitted to Battleships and cruisers for launching Sea Planes, though why is unclear. The ‘1941’ deck layout of Victorious posted by F/A-18RN is actually the originally proposed rebuild layout for the Illustrious class for the 50s, prior to the advent of the angled deck. This rebuild was supposed to take four years and be applied to all six members of the class, but in the event only Victorious was converted due to rising costs (up from an original estimate of £7million/ 4 years to and evetual total of over £30million/ 8 years in 1958). The steam catapult was originally proposed to the RN in 1938, but due to the light weight of aircraft in service at the time it was not needed and the thought of diverting steam from the boilers was a step too far for the conservative Naval officers. Most takeoffs were unassisted at the time as well, the accelerators were used when launching a large strike where insufficient deck space was available for the first few aircraft to launch normally. Once enough deck space had been cleared the rest of the air group could make rolling takeoffs as normal. At that time as well RN aircraft using the accelerators launched in the horizontal, the attachment to the accelerator was by a trolley which attached behind the wings and underneath them to spools poinying backwards on the aircraft, so that at the end of the accelerator track the trolley would stop sharply and the aircraft would be released, in much the same way as aircraft attached to the catapults on capital ships. During the war most RN accelerators were converted to the ‘flush decked track’ of American catapults with wire bridle attachments, initially to operate American aircraft but also later British aircraft which were being built with American style catapult spools, and this method continued through to the late seventies with the RN.

Who proposed the steam catapult?

The idea has changed a bit (and got a lot more expensive) since the original Intermediate Transfer Ship (ITS) idea – that was just to be a simple very large open deck Flo-Flo that would provide an artificial ‘beach’ for LSMR’s to tie up to. The images of the idea suggested a Flo-Flo with a beam twice that of the LSMR’s and looking about as long.

Out of interest, given that Ark Royal had for a short time a deck edge lift, would the structure of the Illustrious, Ark Royal, Colossus, Majestic and Hermes classes have allowed when rebuilt for a lift arrangement similar to that of option D of the 1952 carrier with a CL lift forward and a deck edge lift aft clear of the angled deck plus a waist catapult?

The BBC coverage of the story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/7817378.stm

My theory would be that one blade became detached (or failed due to a manufacturing flaw) and while falling under the influence of gravity, and any momentum it had, hit the other blade, bending it…

…but then I’m not a UFO ‘expert’! :rolleyes:

When the rep from the power company suggested on the radio interview it would have taken something the size and weight of a cow to do the damage, I immediately had visions of the Monty Python crew doing a remake of The Holy Grail…..