L. Bob Rife wanted for questioning.

It would suck to accidentally park your car on an aircraft carrier while running out to get a hot dog or chimichanga only to return and your car is now half way around the world in a God-forsaken foreign land. I mean sure, you could get a cab to get you back home but your delicious chimichanga will probably be cold by then plus the fact that you now have to buy another car. Imagine explaining THAT to the insurance company.

I've seen pictures like that before. One picture showed a BMW parked in the center of the hangar deck with no other cars around it- the captain's car, of course.

Dead for Tax Reasons: Wouldn't it be a ferry rather than a parking lot?

I would think the upkeep an a ferry would be significantly less than an aircraft carrier. I can't imgaine how they couldn't find a cheaper way to do this.

cgraves67: Dead for Tax Reasons: Wouldn't it be a ferry rather than a parking lot?

I would think the upkeep an a ferry would be significantly less than an aircraft carrier. I can't imgaine how they couldn't find a cheaper way to do this.

The carrier is normally stationed in San Diego, but it's going up to Washington for a long-term overhaul/refurbishment that takes at least a year and a half. All those sailors on the ship have been homeported in San Diego and are now being relocated to Washington for the duration of the overhaul. Part of that transfer is moving their vehicles up there. Since the ship is heading that way and isn't carrying aircraft, it actually saves quite a bit of money to use that space to transport the vehicles.

I'd find it amusing if that carrier was suddenly called in to duty half way across the ocean and had to dump all those cars into the ocean.

cgraves67: I would think the upkeep an a ferry would be significantly less than an aircraft carrier. I can't imgaine how they couldn't find a cheaper way to do this.

I think this falls under "as long as you're going that way already...".

FuturePastNow: I've seen pictures like that before. One picture showed a BMW parked in the center of the hangar deck with no other cars around it- the captain's car, of course.

It's good to be the captain. Considering what they are responsible for I don't have a problem with that.

Video (new window) of a car being offloaded.

chechcal: Since the ship is heading that way and isn't carrying aircraft, it actually saves quite a bit of money to use that space to transport the vehicles.

That is along the lines of Space A travel. You book an empty seat on a DoD aircraft and fly for super cheap because the plane was going that way whether you're on it or not.

crab66: FuturePastNow: I've seen pictures like that before. One picture showed a BMW parked in the center of the hangar deck with no other cars around it- the captain's car, of course.

It's good to be the captain. Considering what they are responsible for I don't have a problem with that.

Yeah, exactly. I'd expect the administrator of a decent-sized airport to be well-paid, as would be an expert ship handler, military strategist and tactician, personnel and business director, etc. He's all of those things.

Dead for Tax Reasons: Wouldn't it be a ferry rather than a parking lot?

Hey! DADT just ended, give the culture a bit to catch up.

GameSprocket: Dead for Tax Reasons: Wouldn't it be a ferry rather than a parking lot?

Hey! DADT just ended, give the culture a bit to catch up.

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Haha! +2 Internets for you sir!

Tobin_Lam: chechcal: Since the ship is heading that way and isn't carrying aircraft, it actually saves quite a bit of money to use that space to transport the vehicles.

That is along the lines of Space A travel. You book an empty seat on a DoD aircraft and fly for super cheap because the plane was going that way whether you're on it or not.

When I was a military brat. $10 space A flights to Hawaii or South Korea were awesome! (was also cool going to the states as well).

GleeUnit: chechcal: cgraves67: Dead for Tax Reasons: Wouldn't it be a ferry rather than a parking lot?

I would think the upkeep an a ferry would be significantly less than an aircraft carrier. I can't imgaine how they couldn't find a cheaper way to do this.

The carrier is normally stationed in San Diego, but it's going up to Washington for a long-term overhaul/refurbishment that takes at least a year and a half. All those sailors on the ship have been homeported in San Diego and are now being relocated to Washington for the duration of the overhaul. Part of that transfer is moving their vehicles up there. Since the ship is heading that way and isn't carrying aircraft, it actually saves quite a bit of money to use that space to transport the vehicles.

On a side note, I grew up in the town next to Bremerton. If they really are being relocated there from San Diego.. Well.. They got the shiatty end of that bargain. On the plus side - Bremerton is also the home port of one Sir Mix-A-Lot, but even he doesn't have many flattering things to say about the area. For example, here he is discussing the local women. (new window)

Having been stationed in Bremerton for three glorious years, I have to say . . . you poor poor people.

/I do miss me some Bremalos since the weather turned cooler though . . .

treesloth: crab66: FuturePastNow: I've seen pictures like that before. One picture showed a BMW parked in the center of the hangar deck with no other cars around it- the captain's car, of course.

It's good to be the captain. Considering what they are responsible for I don't have a problem with that.

Yeah, exactly. I'd expect the administrator of a decent-sized airport to be well-paid, as would be an expert ship handler, military strategist and tactician, personnel and business director, etc. He's all of those things.

I just thought it was amusing how no other cars were parked anywhere near it. You don't have to read a complaint about the captain's salary into it.

Nobody dings the captain's doors.

Bremerton makes Norfolk look like paradise.

/can't believe nobody has posted a pic of a car being launched off the deck.

Nimitz: can't believe nobody has posted a pic of a car being launched off the deck.
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Meh, someone already posted the video of the Stig driving a car off the deck.

Nimitz: Bremerton makes Norfolk look like paradise.

/can't believe nobody has posted a pic of a car being launched off the deck.

That's the Enterprise in that picture. She's soon to be retired. Too bad the next Enterprise will probably be some kind of auxillary ship since they're naming all the big flatops after farking politicians.

HopScotchNSoda: Nimitz: can't believe nobody has posted a pic of a car being launched off the deck.
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Meh, someone already posted the video of the Stig driving a car off the deck.

Thats not The Stig launching off a carrier. The HMS invincible, the carrier used to launch him into the drink has a jump ramp at the end of the deck.



Long live original Stig...

Dead for Tax Reasons: Wouldn't it be a ferry rather than a parking lot?

Nuclear powered ferries? Sounds like a Soviet concept!

But based on that picture I don't know how happy i'd be if my car was unsecured to a nearly flat surface with no barriers preventing some good rolling from a storm or something to send the cars into each other or into the ocean.

/also it would probably be advisable to tell the captain to not make sharp turns...

Riche: This seems to be one of those things that appears to be a staggeringly stupid idea at first, but it's really not.
So, do they load the cars on/off by crane, or some kind of ramp system?

Given that it's an aircraft carrier, a ramp would not even have to be adjustable for the tides and the ship's displacement. Groups of cars can be lowered on one of the elevators to the height of the ramp.

Nuclear Wessel: Dead for Tax Reasons: Wouldn't it be a ferry rather than a parking lot?

Nuclear powered ferries? Sounds like a Soviet concept!

But based on that picture I don't know how happy i'd be if my car was unsecured to a nearly flat surface with no barriers preventing some good rolling from a storm or something to send the cars into each other or into the ocean.


There's no way they are unsecured. There are most probably a minimum of two tie down chains per vehicle.

Riche: This seems to be one of those things that appears to be a staggeringly stupid idea at first, but it's really not.

So, do they load the cars on/off by crane, or some kind of ramp system?

What if your car had an oil leak?

Eh, same way they load missiles, pallets of supplies, and other heavy crap...cranes.