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Re: To ladder or turbolift?
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lugnet.space
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Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:57:15 GMT
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In lugnet.space, John D. Forinash writes:
in a ship of this class/size.
> A couple months ago I went to Patriot's Point and saw USS Yorktown (CV-10),
> and one of the things I noted was that it doesn't seem to have elevators for
> human-sized objects; humans use "ladders" (steep staircases) to move
> between decks[0]. And even at Yorktown's size, she still dwarfs any Lego
> MOC I've built... Not to bring up the scale argument, but Yorktown
> is about the same length as I'd guess Dan Jassim's A-Wing carrier MOC is,
> and it's positively huge (I'd guess somewhere between 500 and 700 studs
> long) As technology moves along, I suspect lifts would be more common
> in smaller vessels, but even in Treknology, your MOC is "small" [1] for
> what I'd expect to have one.
> [0] Note that more modern supercarriers may actually have human-sized
> elevators. Note also that Yorktown may have had one somewhere that was
> simply not in use. I get the feeling from what I've seen, though, that
> generally people use ladders on US Navy ships, even if there may be an
> elevator somewhere for moving equipment around or such.
Two weeks ago I visited the USS Lexington Aircraft Carrier (Fought in WWII,
decommissioned in 1992 after serving for many years as a training ship) and was
suprised to find an escalator within the bridge superstructure. The escalator
was for the top brass to use in moving from the war room in the (forgive me, but
I'm ignorant regarding nautical terminology) bridge tower superstructure to (I
think) the interior hangar level. I doubt that the escalator existed in WWII,
but I could be wrong. Anyone know if this is a common feature in modern
Aircraft Carriers?
james
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| (...) Ugh, that means you were in Corpus Christi. I'm sorry. :P (...) Eh, I was under the impression it was more for moving pilots to the flight deck in a timely fashion... (...) I toured the Lex with my father, who served aboard two carriers of the (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) The answer to me seems simple. Were I building this ship, I'd use a ladder. Therefore, the right answer must be turbolift. Seriously, though, I think that even in a Trek-ish universe that a lift is probably overkill for a mere three decks and, (...) (24 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.space)
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