Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Monday, November 23, 2009

My Deck is Melting!

That may be the cry of a CVN, LHA or LPD captain in the next decade, as the V-22 and the F-35B go to sea. Both aircraft blast their jet exhausts downward and can warp the decks of the ships.

Springbored has been blogging about the V-22 for a long time. In his most recent post, he reminded his readers that the Navy is mulling over re-engining the V-22.

I shouldn't be overly shocked by this, but still: Did not not occur to anyone to think about what would happen when a jet engine's exhaust was pointed at at a steel deck?

Update: It's going to take the Navy five years to fix this problem.

(Speaking of bureaucratic chowderheads, the Department of Homeland Security Stupidity can't get enough radiation detectors because those detectors use helium-3, which was a by-product of nuclear weapons manufacturing. We stopped making them 18 years ago, so the stocks of helium-3 have been running out. But nobody at the DHS thought about that.)

2 comments:

Cujo359 said...

The heat VTOL aircraft make on takeoff has been known for a long time. Twenty years or so ago, I saw an airshow in which a Harrier took off and then do the things it typically does. They made it go over to a concrete pad to take off, because it would have melted the tarmac.

Comrade Misfit said...

Cujo, I know, and that's why the Navy's failure to anticipate this problem is more than a little disturbing.