Stupid Guest Tricks

hobie16 wrote:You might like this.

http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/hot ... in_feature

Thats pretty interesting. Never been onboard a boomer (or a trident).

only fast attacks.

hehehehehehe

Heh...one of my former Nemo CM's used to drive real submarines as well.

And there was another one who was from Australia.

We found it funny.

I guess we just didn't get out much.

T

GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:Thats pretty interesting. Never been onboard a boomer (or a trident).

Tridents are purdy.

A vessel under the water, going speeds that I can't even guess (Navy at that time said above 22 kts... I've been on faster cruise ships so I can only imagine how much an understatement that was) and a tenth of a mile long, with nuclear devices for the sustainment of human life toward one end and for the complete and utter destruction of human life at the other. I love the way they paint the missle silos slightly but mostly unnoticably different colors so that as sailors live for months in the tube, they don't completely lose their depth perception.

That visit to Bangor SuBase was before 9/11, of course. I was in high school, and the father of one of my classmates worked there and got us a full tour, complete with boarding the U.S.S. Trident. What an amazing piece of machinery.

The training simulator was absolutely fascinating. I had crashed into the ocean floor within a minute. I now think I understand how I could have kept it from happening, but I might be vastly wrong.

I still have that standing invite from someone at FlightSafety to go try out the 747 simulator, gratis. I REALLY have to take him up on that.

Big Wallaby wrote: I still have that standing invite from someone at FlightSafety to go try out the 747 simulator, gratis. I REALLY have to take him up on that.

I know a guy who went from flying Falcon 20's to 747's. He said is like flying any other jet, it just takes the 747 longer to react. Yeah, you do need to take him up on it. I had a blast in the Falcon 20 sim :)

Big Wallaby wrote:Tridents are purdy.

A vessel under the water, going speeds that I can't even guess (Navy at that time said above 22 kts... I've been on faster cruise ships so I can only imagine how much an understatement that was) and a tenth of a mile long, with nuclear devices for the sustainment of human life toward one end and for the complete and utter destruction of human life at the other. I love the way they paint the missle silos slightly but mostly unnoticably different colors so that as sailors live for months in the tube, they don't completely lose their depth perception.

That visit to Bangor SuBase was before 9/11, of course. I was in high school, and the father of one of my classmates worked there and got us a full tour, complete with boarding the U.S.S. Trident. What an amazing piece of machinery.

The training simulator was absolutely fascinating. I had crashed into the ocean floor within a minute. I now think I understand how I could have kept it from happening, but I might be vastly wrong.

I still have that standing invite from someone at FlightSafety to go try out the 747 simulator, gratis. I REALLY have to take him up on that.

You are very lucky. when I was riding them the Trident wasn't even on the drawing board.

I did see the Discovery program about them. Very impressive "upgrade" on the boomer front.