Aircraft Carriers
Images from the USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
Between Oct. 19 and 20, 2009, I had the possibility to spend some 25 hours on board the USS Nimitz nuclear supercarrier. I went to Manama, Bahrain, and after a long flight in a C-2 […]
Naval Aviation
Aircraft Carriers
Compressor stall…in the worst case scenario
“A compressor stall is a situation of abnormal airflow resulting from a stall of the aerofoils within the compressor. Stall is found in dynamic compressors, particularly axial compressors, as used in jet engines and turbochargers […]
Aircraft Carriers
On board the Cavour aircraft carrier (again)
A few months after reporting from on board the Cavour during a port visit in Civitavecchia for the Armed Forces Day celebrations (for more information and technical details about the ship, read the following article: […]
Aircraft Carriers
On board the Cavour aircraft carrier
On Nov. 9, during the Armed Forces Day celebrations (see also: November 4th 2008 – 90th Anniversary of the end of WWI) I went to Civitavecchia to visit the brand new Italian aircraft carrier Cavour. […]
Aircraft Carriers
New picture of the Cavour carrier spotted in the Tyrrhenian sea
Riccardo Braccini, Aviopress Editor, sent me this interesting picture of the new Italian aircraft carrier Cavour that he took from an Italian Coast Guard helicopter on November 8th, at 11.21 LT.