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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: [QB] [QUOTE]V is for "aviation." At the time CV1 was built, CA was being used for heavy (or "armored") cruisers. [/QUOTE] Hmmn... I live within driving distance of the Alameda Naval Base (The one visited by Kirk and Co. in STIV) and recently visited to take a tour of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Hornet CV-12, which is moored there as a flaoting museum. (The Hornet is the ship that picked up Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew after splashdown. It was really cool, I got to walk in his footsteps [painted on the deck] to the isolation/decontamination chamber that they put the astronauts in. [This was before they knew whether there were any dangerous organisms on the moon that could be brought back.] I got to go inside the chamber and put my ear to the phone that Armstrong spoke to President Kennedy on! I missed the engine room tour, [Damn!] but I got to see the med-science lab, the infirmary, the operating room, crewmen's quarters, mess hall, and of course the hangar deck, where they have several WWII and Vietnam/Korean War vintage aircraft. [Very Cool!] And I also got to tour the bridge.) Anyways, on the bridge tour, the docent said that the 'V' stood for 'heaVier than air' indicating that the vessel was a seagoing ship and not an Airship. He being the docent and all, I took him at his word, but I guess he could've been wrong. -MMoM :D [/QB][/QUOTE]
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