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As a yard worker, In some ways I feel sorry for NewportNews Shipyard. These elevators are designs the Navy brought to them. Not something they designed. They bu
by frankharv 7y ago
As a yard worker, In some ways I feel sorry for NewportNews Shipyard.
These elevators are designs the Navy brought to them.
Not something they designed.
They built it to spec and it did not work.
Now the blame game.
As someone above noted, The Navy did not even build a land based prototype. Now whose fault is this mess?
I had thought it would be the catapult system that failed.
Instead it is too powerful and they are still tuning it.
They are worried about the stress on the nose gear. Some birds are still restricted in weight last I heard.
- fock 7y agothe most probable cause is there aren't any contractors available anymore in the US who are able/willing to build such things. This is really sad.