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    How the Mighty USS Enterprise Became an American Legend

    Will a Ford Class carrier be honored with the name Enterprise?

    How the Mighty USS Enterprise Became an American Legend

    Enterprise proved the viability of nuclear power for aircraft carriers, but in hindsight that was the most forgettable of its achievements.The first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier ever built carries one of the most famous names in flattop history: Enterprise. Designed as the nucleus of a nuclear-powered task force that could travel indefinitely without fuel replenishment, the USS Enterprise set the standard for all U.S. aircraft carriers to the present day.



    In August 1950 the chief of naval operations, Adm. Forrest Sherman, requested a feasibility study for nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. A shore-based nuclear reactor was built as a test, and based on the success of the so-called A1W reactor authorization, and funds for a nuclear carrier was approved in 1958.


    Enterprise was commissioned in November 1961. It was 1,123 feet long, the longest aircraft carrier ever built, and displaced 93,284 tons fully loaded. Its eight A2W reactors, a development of the A1W, could together generate an amazing 280,000 shaft horsepower, driving Enterprise’s four propellers to a speed of more than thirty-five knots. The ship was manned by a crew of 5,500, including the air wing, and could carry eighty-five aircraft.


    Enterprise followed the same design as its conventionally powered predecessors Kitty Hawk and Constellation. It had four catapults, two on the bow and two on the port waist, and four aircraft elevators. Its uniquely shaped superstructure was nicknamed “the beehive” and housed electronic countermeasures gear and SCANFAR, the world’s first shipboard phased-array radar consisting of the the SPS-32 and SPS-33 search radars.


    A ship of many firsts, Enterprise may also have been the first aircraft carrier commissioned totally unarmed since the Navy’s first carrier, USS Langley. Originally designed to carry the Terrier surface-to-air missile, these were deleted from the ship’s final form to control costs. It was only in 1967 that two Mk. 25 Basic Point Defense Missile Systems launchers were installed, each with eight Sea Sparrow Missiles. These were replaced with Mk. 29 launchers later, and during the 1980s three Mk. 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapon Systems were added to the ship’s defenses.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HawkTheSlayer View Post
    I thought Gene Roddenberry was da baby daddy.
    The Trekkies got a Space Shuttle named Enterprise.
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    When in the Navy we routinely chased the Enterprise. I was on a WW2 era destroyer. The Enterprise was a magnitude of 10 larger than us with a flight deck almost a quarter mile long. When we would go along side for food or ammo transfers we looked like a bathtub boat! In heavy seas we would be pitching and rolling like a cork while the Enterprise would be steaming along sedately like it was on a mill pond! It could launch 4 aircraft at the same time. One of the officers on board my ship remarked that their catapult could launch his Corvette a mile off the ship! One aside, it was not allowed to berth in Japan because they were extremely afraid of nuclear power at the time (this was only 20 years after Hiroshima after all).

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    Will a Ford Class carrier be honored with the name Enterprise?


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    Quote Originally Posted by MMC View Post
    Will a Ford Class carrier be honored with the name Enterprise?


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    Quote Originally Posted by HawkTheSlayer View Post
    Beverly ,Deanna , and Hawk.

    Make it so!

    LOL.....my daughter loved that series. She loved everything Star Trek.
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