Shep Visits the US Naval Academy! (56k DIE)

[MKSheppard]

Plebes and Plebe Summer


Bunker like first floor. Everything should look like that.


Front view of Nimitz Library. You can see the faded "BEAT ARMY" graffiti. BTW, the courtyard is actually the roof of the ground floor labs.


Entrance to Nimitz Library


Double Sided Memorial to USS Scorpion/Thresher in the Library


Training scow used to train middies.

Rickover Hall


Needs more Asshole.


LM2500 in entrance hall


Three ship models in entrance hall


A lecture hall near the entrance.

So what makes Rickover Hall so cool? Well, the fact that they have all sorts of neat stuff in the hallways, like:





CGN-42 EMI model.



USS Bainbridge Builders' Model.





Everyone should have their own Towing tank for hydrodynamic tests.


Wonder what's behind that door.


SSTG.


J79 Turbojet.



TLAM and captured SSM-2 Styx; from 1991.


Stas, translate this PLZ.

[K. A. Pital]

"Air fuelling"
"Tor. tank"
Manometer
G tank
O tank
Spreading tank

[Fingolfin_Noldor]

Is there a reason why they use brass to simulate the ship? I'd have thought it'd be better to actually use the same steel type they planned.

[JointStrikeFighter]

Brass is easy to work with on a model scale; u can just use tinsnips and whatnot. HY120 steel; not so much.

[Shroom Man 777]

It's just to test the hydrodynamic form of the ship, right? Like, how well its shape and form cuts through the water?

Man, we need ship models made out of gold.

[Steve]

It's just to test the hydrodynamic form of the ship, right? Like, how well its shape and form cuts through the water?

Man, we need ship models made out of gold.

Bling model ships?

[andrewgpaul]

It's just to test the hydrodynamic form of the ship, right? Like, how well its shape and form cuts through the water?

Man, we need ship models made out of gold.

According to the actual caption in that pic, it's for testing EM interference. Perhaps 3 thou brass has a similar permittivity or whatnot to 12" steel?