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Classic Wings Magazine WWII Naval Aviation Research Pacific Luftwaffe Resource Center
When Hollywood Ruled The Skies - Volumes 1 through 4 by Bruce Oriss


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armyjunk2
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Battleship Texas
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Prop
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looking forward from stern
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looking forward from Bridge
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aft from bow
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14" turrets
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loading shell in 14" gun
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loading powder in 14" gun
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Powder handing for turrets
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shell handing for turrets
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shell storage
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Bridge
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after steering
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Bomb Grates in Stack
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Crews Quarters
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Radio Room
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Passageway
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Throttle
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They are redoing the Engineroom what a huge job that will be
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Deck Guns
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Nice pics! Thanks! :wink:

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wow that was a nice tour!! i was on a canadian warship museum as a kid, & got into 1 of the gun turrets & was able to traverse it manually with a set of cranks. i was 11 then, i think it was a twin 5 inch gun on a cruiser. it was cool, & a fond memory!!

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The Texas is one of my sentimental favorites. Hard to believe that she was launched in 1912 - 96 years ago! :shock:

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Nice photo tour!

I love that ship!

We were there a few weeks ago with the Scout Troop, the engine room was closed because they were painting down there...

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Awesome pics!!!
BTW ships don't have props they have screws :idea: :!: :wink: :wink: :wink:
Thanks much for sharing!!!!!!

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From Wikipedia:

A propeller is essentially a type of fan which transmits power by converting rotational motion into thrust for propulsion of a vehicle such as an aircraft, ship, or submarine through a fluid such as water or air, by rotating two or more twisted blades about a central shaft, in a manner analogous to rotating a screw through a solid. The blades of a propeller act as rotating wings (the blades of a propeller are in fact wings or airfoils), and produce force through application of both Bernoulli's principle and Newton's third law, generating a difference in pressure between the forward and rear surfaces of the airfoil-shaped blades and by accelerating a mass of air rearward.
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The first screw propeller to be powered by a gasoline engine, .... through the water (hence the common reference to marine propellers as "screws"

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So I may say everybody is right! :)
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You were never in the Navy were you :idea: :wink:

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Nope! :lol:
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They beat that stuff into us with a hammer.
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So does that mean that you had that always needed bucket of propwash snuck away in a super-secret compartment Jack?

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Our instructor on ship momenclature was a Bos'un.
He also taught the a/c recognition class :idea:
Rule of thumb: don't argue with the instructor over his
IDing of a EA-6B has a A-6....right or wrong you're going
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on small boats we always called them props
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