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« Reply #15 on: July 10, 2002, 04:05:39 PM »
...well that didn't work as planned...URL for pic is http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/carriers/images/usa/cv2-3.jpg

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« Reply #16 on: July 10, 2002, 04:10:15 PM »
ok - now pic shows up for me & i feel like twice as much of a moron...whos going to count up the port holes on both pics to see if they are the same CV?

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« Reply #17 on: July 10, 2002, 04:52:12 PM »
USS Saratoga was built same time as Lexington and I think same plans.

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« Reply #18 on: July 10, 2002, 04:53:31 PM »
Another shot of Saratoga

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« Reply #19 on: July 10, 2002, 04:54:27 PM »
and one more of the Saratoga,  similar to Lexingtion CV2,
Brady's pic is of the Bearn, French carrier.
Sorry couldnt edit out the plane, now cajun will hijack the thread for biplanes

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« Reply #20 on: July 10, 2002, 04:54:38 PM »
who ever designed it must've been an idiot, the ramp goes down instead of up!


I'm guessing french:p

and as tom pointed out, it can't be the Lexington, look at the bow, the ramp thing there is flat, not going up or down

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« Reply #21 on: July 10, 2002, 05:45:51 PM »
Bearn, it is:)

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« Reply #22 on: July 10, 2002, 09:15:30 PM »
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I think the Langley was the first Flatop


HMS Argus was the first flat-top (1918 - she was converted from an Italian merchant vessel).
HMS Furious was the first operational carrier (1917: forward deck only - converted from a cruiser ).

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« Reply #23 on: July 10, 2002, 09:21:08 PM »
Thanks Pei,  I guess its just the American in me but I was thinking USS Langley as the First 'American" Aircraft carrier, never really other countries, 20 years of military training will do that sometimes.

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« Reply #24 on: July 10, 2002, 09:28:06 PM »
Hehe
We Brits invented a lot of things; aircraft carriers, football, cricket. It just took other countries to actually do them right :)

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« Reply #25 on: July 11, 2002, 02:17:42 AM »
The movie "Task Force" has some good USS Langley footage in it - as well as all sorts of other cool combat footage - the movie ain't bad either