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Originally Posted by Tin Man
Cheers mate.
Ok, a two part question. Which USN Carrier featured in the Star Trek movie "Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home", with scenes filmed on board. This carrier also featured in Top Gun, with scenes filmed on board It also starred in another naval-centric 1980 film, which film?
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That is so easy for me I am laughing. The USS Ranger (CV-61) was the stand-in for the Enterprise in the movie. You will notice that they set the actors up in such a way as you could not see the bow number or the Island on the Flight Deck. If they did, you might have seen a polemast I designed for the ship.
Unfortunately she was inactivated in 1993 and I was tasked as project leader to design her towing rig and monitor stowage of all topside materials down on the hangar deck.
Her last claim to fame was in April of 1992 when, in commemoration of the Doolittle Raid on Japan, two B-25 Bombers took off from her flight deck in San Diego harbor. At least these bombers, "Heavenly Body" and "In the Mood", were not loaded up and had a few hundred more feet of "runway".
On the upper left hand corner of the picture you can see my polemast that supported the fan wire antennas from the yardarm. The bottom part of the mast is a steel tube welded to the superstructure. The upper part of the mast is aluminum. And they are NOT riveted or bolted together but WELDED together.
Oh. The other film was about the Nimitz going back into time just before the Pearl Harbor attack, "The Final Countdown."
Trivia: She also carried a fiberglass white horse on board and when coming into port they would have it on one of the elevators with a crewman mounted on it and dressed up as the Lone Ranger.
One more thing. I've been asked to conduct an inspection of her later this year. So any photos you have of her, upload them to
dreadnght@aol.com.