LEGO Aircraft Carrier

st3lt3k said:
The number "75" on the side of the LEGO aircraft carrier's island made me curious . . .

It turns out this model is of the CVN-75 Harry S. Truman Nimitz class aircraft carrier.

Pictures of the Harry S. Truman minifig scale aircraft carrier LEGO model on brickshelf

This photo shows the timetable of the construction of the modules.
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I think the number like 75 is like the 75th ship to be made. Correct me if I am wrong. Bit off topic, I notice Ridgerunner is banned. What did he do to get banned?
 
Ptarmigan said:
I think the number like 75 is like the 75th ship to be made.
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Yeah, Ijuin's correct; the numbering sequence is related to the order in which the carrier is commissioned. It seems that escort carriers have a completely independent numbering system, but it follows the same rules.

According to Wikipedia, there's a gap from #50-#57; they're labeled as cancelled. Since they would be commissioned around 1946, I'm guessing they were going to be used during the planned invasion of Japan, but were cancelled after their surrender. It probably also had to do with the transition to the "supercarrier"; the next eight to ten carriers are labeled as such.
 
CVN 75 Notes of Interest

I came across these "Notes of Interest" on the non-LEGO Harry S Truman at this German website, http://www.navysite.de/cvn/cvn75.html :

* Construction dates:
o Tons of steel used: 60,000​
o Pounds of aluminum used: 1,000,000​
o Weight of modular segments used in final construction: up to 900 tons​
o Number of modules making up the ship: 190​
* There are about 140,000 rolls of toilet paper on board
* Pens and paper: 600,000 ball-point pens and 1.5 million sheets of paper on board

I don't see why the approximately 5,500 person crew would need over 100 pens each. On the other hand, 1.5 million sheets of paper sounds low to me. Maybe these numbers are wrong?
 
Do recall that carriers often spend half a year or more at sea, and pens are trivially easy to lose (personal experience). Since all logs and formal documents have to be written in ink, having a bunch around (though I question 600K) isn't totally outrageous.

(Nevermind that I'm wondering a) where that site is pulling those numbers from, and b) why anyone believes some third party that breaks things down even more finely than the supply folks do...)
 
I've lost an entire box of pens in a month. It's really not such a stretch for there to be 100 pens a person aboard a carrier.
 
Additionally, when you are using disposable ballpoint pens and writing down everything, you need a new one at least once a week, which for a six-month voyage would require at least thirty pens per crewmember. A million and a half sheets of paper does seem low though--maybe it is ten times that?
 
Ijuin said:
Additionally, when you are using disposable ballpoint pens and writing down everything, you need a new one at least once a week, which for a six-month voyage would require at least thirty pens per crewmember. A million and a half sheets of paper does seem low though--maybe it is ten times that?
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1. Then the amount of pens is probably too low (or a typo).
2. Maybe they're both typos!
 
Lt.Death100 said:
1. Then the amount of pens is probably too low (or a typo).
2. Maybe they're both typos!
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It's more likely that they're not based in any fact than that they're typos.
 
Ijuin said:
A million and a half sheets of paper does seem low though--maybe it is ten times that?
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That's just aboard the ship. The barge it's dragging behind it has the other 60 billion sheets.
 
Once again, that's a really awesome lego ship, but photographed by someone who's really bad at taking pictures. Out of five pictures, two are blurry and two are at really weird angles, and there's no good image of the whole thing. The people who run Brickshelf need to teach their members how to better show off what they create.
 
ChrisReid said:
Once again, that's a really awesome lego ship, but photographed by someone who's really bad at taking pictures. Out of five pictures, two are blurry and two are at really weird angles, and there's no good image of the whole thing. The people who run Brickshelf need to teach their members how to better show off what they create.
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Agreed! I've seen a few amazing Lego models on the internet, but they've all been marred by terrible photography.
 
ChrisReid said:
Once again, that's a really awesome lego ship, but photographed by someone who's really bad at taking pictures. Out of five pictures, two are blurry and two are at really weird angles, and there's no good image of the whole thing. The people who run Brickshelf need to teach their members how to better show off what they create.
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I am a photographer myself and you are right about it. Those photos are not great, but the ship is awesome. :cool:
 
Amazing. I can only dream of building something like that. The guy must have a lot of spare time and patience. I wonder what his wife would say.
 
Man after looking at that I think of the impossible

Life-size
- Xwing fighter
- Epee
- Sabre
- Dralthi
- or any fighter craft worth trying
 
Lt.Death100 said:
Dragon!!!:D
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That would be amazing, but reinforcing the wing hinge-joints on a life-size Lego Dragon would be quite a challenge. Not to mention the effort required to move them...
 
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