HMS Queen Elizabeth due out today

The magic money tree strikes again

Regards Adam

More the magic roundabout. UK pays itself to build an aircraft carrier. More helpful than quantitive easing in that real people get paid for doing real jobsand then spend their money locally and even pay some of it back to the governmant in tax. OK I do realise that some of the equipment will have been imported but it's still a sizeable amount ploughed back into the economy.

regards Martin

Let's not get political, it's depressing enough listening to the news without getting it all repeated here...

Neil

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What will they want a picture for.? ...................... If as usual they will have had all the plans before the shipyard did.!

Nick

They would want to see the external armaments fitted. Laser pointers to blind pilots and wave skimming protection guns etc. Look at the difference in design between Russki and Western designs, The quality of work is totally different and the reliability is much better than the Russki's.

Re the propulsion, The power pods are 360 deg operation and on ice breakers the ship can go in reverse to go through the ice pack, my Sons Company run such ships on oil and gas search and work in the ice. Some of the video I have seen is remarkable. The power pods can be exchanged quite easily in dry dock and they have no long prop shafts. Quoted today, 'It drives like a sports car'

Clive

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Nice one Neil unless someone wants to write you an article about making a soapbox with a bit of metal content.

Yes, I just read about the lack of a catapult. It means the only likely aircraft to fly from it is the F35 and we can't afford to buy enough of those apparently. It also can't launch larger fixed wing aircraft for AWACS duty without a catapult. It sounds like too many cost cutting exercises were made on the project as usual. Looks good though.

I always wondered about some one naming something after a person, remember the Edsel?

The car with the rudest radiator grille in history?

Neil

No doubt Prince Albert and Amelia Bloomer would both agree!