RN Aircraft Carriers: HMS Queen Elizabeth

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Thanks Harry, to be honest just hav'nt got the time to keep tabs on everything but also understand that our Marine Commandos will be carrying out exercises ashore possibly with the USMC. You may find mine in USN section of interest. Sabre rattling?

P.S. Just come across this which accounts for some of the time up to second half of next month?
"Meanwhile the QE will shortly head to the Bahamas area for 3 weeks of long planned hot water trials that were postponed from last year’s deployment. It’s not clear if the CSG might assist in some post hurricane relief activities while in the area."
#WESTLANT19

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Tweet from Dragon with attached photo.
"We’ve found a petrol station off the east coast of the U.S. RFA Tideforce refuelling HMS QNLZ"

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FROM NAVY NEWS

FLEET Air Arm fast jet action in the skies of the eastern USA in the autumn of 2019.
But wait. These aren’t F-35s Lightnings. And there’s no HMS Queen Elizabeth in sight.
But while the UK’s future flagship makes her way down the Eastern Seaboard ready to embark the stealth fighters of 617 Squadron and their Fleet Air Arm/RAF air and ground crews, fellow British naval aviator Lieutenant Joe Mason has been wowing hundreds of thousands of people in Virginia.
The Brit is on exchange with VFA-106 – 106th Strike Fighter Squadron, better known as the Gladiators – who feed the US Navy’s Atlantic carrier fleet with trained fast jet pilots and weapon systems operators (the US Navy’s equivalent of observers in the Fleet Air Arm).
Every six weeks, upwards of a dozen pilots/WSOs arrive at the Gladiators’ home of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, a short distance from the US Fleet’s principal east coast base in Norfolk.
And over the next nine months aviators like Lieutenant (pronounced ‘loo-tenant’ on the other side of the Atlantic) Mason helps to turn them into fully-qualified airmen and women nine months later, qualified to operate from 100,000-tonne US flattops by day and night.
The Brit is an F/A 18 Super Hornet pilot and instructor with the Gladiators – and on his second tour of duty in the States flying the mainstay of US Navy carrier operations.
He was invited to fly with his comrades during the F-18 Air Power Demonstration flypast as Oceana opened its gates to the public for its two-day annual air show.
After touching down on the runway, the Brit – aided by his colleague Lieutenant Andy ‘Handy’ Werhan USN – unfurled a White Ensign as the pair taxied the £25m aircraft to a halt on the standings.

Pictures courtesy of Dariusz Jezewski - http://www.fotodj.com/?fbclid=IwAR37h5W ... k7BKcOnRqU

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The start of a CSG heading south - from little acorns etc.

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BBQ & Sport - https://twitter.com/HMSQNLZ/status/1177306312453083137
Films - https://twitter.com/HMSQNLZ/status/1177381563765612550

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HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH JOINS WORLD’S BIGGEST COFFEE MORNING
27 September 2019
Now that’s about as British as you can get. You can’t have the world’s biggest coffee morning (being Brits tea is a perfectly acceptable and frequent substitute…) without Britain’s biggest warship.

Commander Chris Knowles raises his mug as he enjoys a wet in the right-hand pilot’s seat of his Merlin helicopter as it returns to aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth after a patrol of the North Atlantic.

The commanding officer of 820 Naval Air Squadron is one of 1,800 sailors, soldiers and aviators in the carrier strike group joining Britons around the globe for the annual fundraiser Macmillan Cancer Support.

The UK Carrier Strike Group’s Biggest Coffee Morning took place simultaneously onboard HMS Queen Elizabeth, destroyer HMS Dragon (presently escorting US carrier USS Dwight D Eisenhower for a few days), frigate HMS Northumberland and tanker RFA Tideforce, with aviators and ground crew from 814, 815, 820 and 845 Naval Air Squadrons from RNAS Yeovilton and RNAS Culdrose, as well as Royal Marines and Army and Royal Air Force personnel embarked on the carrier.

In line with naval tradition, all but those sailors on essential duties stopped work at 10.15 for the daily 15-minute-long “stand easy”.

Typically a brew and biscuit affair, aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth the chefs raised the stakes to raise money, producing cakes for shipmates (for a donation to Macmillan, of course) in addition to the three meals they serve up to 1,200 men and women daily.

The idea for a strike group-wide coffee morning grew out of a pledge from Royal Navy chef Petty Officer Kieran Fisher.

“I wanted to do something after one of our shipmates was recently diagnosed with cancer. It got me thinking about how we could all help and raise the profile of Macmillan,” said the 35-year-old from Plymouth who serves onboard the carrier.

More photos at:
https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-l ... ee-morning

[Little h]

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Films - https://twitter.com/HMSQNLZ/status/1177381563765612550

Now - IMO real progress would have been made if they (all those graduate engineers), had programmed the EID's (Electronic Indicator Boards) to provide multi-screen film options

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Films - https://twitter.com/HMSQNLZ/status/1177381563765612550

Now - IMO real progress would have been made if they (all those graduate engineers), had programmed the EID's (Electronic Indicator Boards) to provide multi-screen film options

Had same thought Harry, especially if bad weather could been seen in hangar but presumably EIDs are fed from a dedicated system, why not tweet Q.E.? I'm passive on Twitter and my cup runneth over in this area. Just a thought - I wonder what the reaction would be if you wrote to the skipper via snail mail, would his scribe reply in copperplate? Fair does tho, they are all on a steep learning curve, good luck to all of them.

[Little h]

Westlant19

Films - https://twitter.com/HMSQNLZ/status/1177381563765612550

Now - IMO real progress would have been made if they (all those graduate engineers), had programmed the EID's (Electronic Indicator Boards) to provide multi-screen film options

Had same thought Harry, especially if bad weather could been seen in hangar but presumably EIDs are fed from a dedicated system, why not tweet Q.E.? I'm passive on Twitter and my cup runneth over in this area. Just a thought - I wonder what the reaction would be if you wrote to the skipper via snail mail, would his scribe reply in copperplate? Fair does tho, they are all on a steep learning curve, good luck to all of them.

I'm passive on Twitter also David

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For info ~ Smithsonian Channel

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HMS Queen Elizabeth is the largest and most powerful warship ever built for Britain's Royal Navy. It's the product of 20 years of technical development, eight years of construction, and two years of crew assembly. She's almost capable of sailing into battle, but first the massive vessel and her crew must pass a series of grueling sea trials. With unprecedented access, this is a behind-the-scenes look at what makes this supercarrier so unique and an intimate portrait of the dedicated men and women who call her home.

See - https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/show ... dAVXm7lpmA