Shipbucket

I wanted to rework my Gearing FRAM into something a bit more practical, and my thought was to give it an actual helo hangar, likely capable of holding one Seasprite, but I notice that nobody else who operated the things went in that direction, even nations like Taiwan who certainly could have if they wanted to. Is there something wrong with the hullform that makes a traditional hangar and helopad arrangement, as opposed to that raised pad and tiny hangar, a bad idea?

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If it's close enough to cast a shadow, I think the flying house wins initiative.

Bronies are like the Forsworn. Everyone agrees that they are a problem but nobody wants to expend the energy rooting them out.

"That is a very graphic analogy which aids understanding wonderfully while being, strictly speaking, wrong in every possible way."

The Taiwanese seemed to have used the existing hangar (for the DASH ) to ship a small Hughes helicopter. I would expect that the task of converting the ship to carry the bigger Seasprite wasn't worth the cost, plus it would probably have create more problems with top weight etc.

Greece used the French Alouette III helicopter on some of their Gearings (the one numbered D210 as an example)

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"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

That is interesting; and I wonder if they could get the bigger helicopter into the existing hangar: I would think not, so maybe they just had it on the landing pad?

I've for long wondered why haven't a´nybody taken their luck with this one:

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I suspect that as the orginal FRAM was done to take a very smal and light DASH that the undeling super structure couldn't handle a much heaver helio not to mension $$$$ of the actual helio, crew space weapon,s maintaneance and increased avgas fuel loads
I never did figure out what helio I should have put on this one
graham

The Themistocles was the former USS Frank Knox (DD-742), which was converted to a DDR and after recieving her FRAM II refit she was still without any DASH hangar or pad. The landing pad and hangar were built in 1978 by the Greek navy when the ship was refitted, and that how she ended her life

Armament 6 X 5"/38 guns in twin turrets
2 Mk. 11 Hedgehog, and two Mk.32 ASW torpedo launchers
1 Alouette III helicopter.
Sensors: radar SPS-29 and SPS-10, Mk.25 fire control radar.
sonars (?) SQS-23 and SQA-10 VDS

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Thank you Kim for the crest

"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

Great Stuff And graham mate, you really need to finish off your version

Very interesting, and thanks very much for all the input! I was planning much the same modification with the Sea Sparrow launcher forward, though I was going to keep the Asroc midships. It's a hard guess on that hangar, but I may be able to find a bit of space somewhere.

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We can't stop here--this is Bat country!

If it's close enough to cast a shadow, I think the flying house wins initiative.

Bronies are like the Forsworn. Everyone agrees that they are a problem but nobody wants to expend the energy rooting them out.

"That is a very graphic analogy which aids understanding wonderfully while being, strictly speaking, wrong in every possible way."

This is what I had in mind. Still something of a WIP, it illustrates my general idea.

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We can't stop here--this is Bat country!

If it's close enough to cast a shadow, I think the flying house wins initiative.

Bronies are like the Forsworn. Everyone agrees that they are a problem but nobody wants to expend the energy rooting them out.

"That is a very graphic analogy which aids understanding wonderfully while being, strictly speaking, wrong in every possible way."