Heavy Metal

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Russian sailor at the 6-inch gun in 35 calibers on the deck of the Russian cruiser "Admiral Kornilov". 1895.

 

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USS Iowa (BB-61) under construction at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, late 1942

 

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IJN Aircraft Carrier Akagi and Battleship Nagato at Yokusuka, August 1930

 

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German battleship Bismarck photographed from the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen on 24 May 1941, following the Battle of the Denmark Strait and before the two German ships separated.

 

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An aerial view of the battleship USS Oklahoma, originally built in 1910. The Oklahoma was operated by the U.S. Navy until she was sunk in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in December 1941
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Actually righted in Pearl and sunk and lost in Pacific while being towed to California, to be parted I believe.

 

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USS Tennessee BB-43, underway in Puget Sound, Washington, on 12 May 1943, after modernization.

 

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Russian sailor at the 6-inch gun in 35 calibers on the deck of the Russian cruiser "Admiral Kornilov". 1895.
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Killed at the Battel of Tsushima, 1906!

 

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Breathtaking shot of the Admiral Kuznetsov in its drydock, taken in better times

 

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What's old is new again.

Supersonic transport coming back? United making a bet on the "Boom". Mach 1.7, 60K feet, you can see Earth's curvature and probably even bright stars in broad daylight. Predicted at $8K per seat

Can they do it? WhoTF knows .. but I am rooting for the potential and bad-a** audacity of it all.

source: United Airlines Orders Boom Overture Supersonic Jet | One Mile at a Time

For some context, Boom Technology is a Colorado-based aeronautics company, best known for the Boom Overture, which is intended to bring back supersonic commercial air travel.

Here are some basic things to be aware of about the Boom Overture concept:

• The plane will be 199 feet long (as a point of comparison, a 737-800 is 130 feet and a 777-300 is 242 feet along)
• The plane will be able to cruise at an altitude of up to 60,000 feet, at Mach 1.7 (as a point of comparison, a 777 can fly at up to 43,000 feet, and at up to March 0.84)
• The plane will have a range of just under 4,900 miles
• The plane will be able to seat 65-88 passengers, in an all-business class configuration
• The plane will be 100% carbon neutral
• The expected price will be $200 million per aircraft

 

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Allegheny axle did that work in Butler years ago. I don't think they are around anymore.

 

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Crew of the USS Bennington honoring the sunken USS Arizona as she passes in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 31 May 1958.

 

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On This Day in 1945, over 100 feet of USS Pittsburgh's bow was snapped off by a typhoon near Okinawa. The heavy cruiser managed to make it to Guam where she was referred to as the "Longest Ship in the World" because the distance from bow to stern was thousands of miles

 

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Paulding-class destroyer USS Trippe (DD-33) at Queenstown, New Zealand, 1918

 

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USS Idaho (BB-42) (foreground) and USS Texas (BB-35) Steaming at the rear of the battle line, during Battle Fleet practice off the California coast, circa 1930.

 

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USS Arizona in the East River, New York City, circa mid-1916

 

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U.S. Navy battleship USS Alabama (BB-60) In Casco Bay, Maine, during her shakedown period, circa December 1942