Aircraft carrier – Henry Poon's Blog https://blog.henrypoon.com Mon, 03 Oct 2022 04:57:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 83044199 New York City: Part III https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2012/08/10/new-york-city-part-iii/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2012/08/10/new-york-city-part-iii/#respond Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:30:48 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/new-york-city-part-iii After the trip to Rockefeller Center, the tour bus took us to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.  It was nice being in the tour bus going from place to place – it was way too hot to be walking about and taking the metro everywhere.

The Intrepid Museum is basically an retired aircraft carrier from World War II that was converted into a museum.

On the deck of the aircraft carrier were all sorts of fighter planes, helicopters, etc.

People even get to inside the so-called “island”, where the bridge and flight control tower are located.

A lot of the instruments on board are quite antiquated since this ship was commissioned in 1943.

It’s really cramped inside too.

Beside the aircraft carrier and also part of the museum is the submarine, USS Growler. It was a submarine used as a nuclear deterrent.

When we were at the Intrepid, we weren’t able to visit the inside of the submarine since the bridge used to board the vessel had collapsed. By the time the workers set up the bridge again, we didn’t have enough time to go inside.

Below the aircraft carrier flight deck are exhibits about the history of the USS Intrepid. One of the best items on display there was the Lego version of the ship. It’s 22 feet long, 550 lbs, and uses 250000 lego bricks.

There were more aircraft displays on this deck and also showed the history of American aviation.

There was even a display of the number of planes shot down and ships sunk by the Intrepid and its aircraft during WWII.

At certain times of day, there are even demonstrations of the aircraft elevator.

That pretty much concluded my trip of the Intrepid Museum. Stay tuned for the next part: Freedom Tower, Wall Street, Statue of Liberty and more!

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]]> https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2012/08/10/new-york-city-part-iii/feed/ 0 1542 New York City: Part II https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2012/08/09/new-york-city-part-ii/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2012/08/09/new-york-city-part-ii/#respond Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:14:42 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/new-york-city-part-ii Throughout the first day, we had boarded the tour bus early in the morning and pretty much toured around NYC with very little sleep.  Now that we got a good night’s sleep, we were quite energized for our second day of the tour.

The first destination for the day was Rockefeller Center. This is the place where a giant Christmas tree is placed during the holiday season. The front of it, by the fountain with the statue of Prometheus, would also be a giant ice rink. During the summer, an outdoor restaurant takes its place.

There is also an observation deck at the top known as the “Top of the Rock” that we didn’t go to. They advertise that from up there, people can see an unobstructed view of the whole city.

The inside looks quite nice too!

I guess the designers of Rockefeller Center really like mythological characters because apart from the fountain with Prometheus, there’s also a statue of Atlas.

Beside Rockefeller Center is Radio City Music Hall, an entertainment venue that, for a time, was a really popular tourist destination. It is said that the hydraulics used for their stage were so advanced for its time, that the US Navy used the same hydraulics when constructing aircraft carriers during WWII.

Also beside Rockefeller Center is St. Patrick’s Cathedral. I always thought everything in NYC was really modern, so I didn’t expect such historical architecture.

It happened to be a Sunday that day, so the inside was filled with people attending church.

Our next destination in the afternoon was the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. That place was so interesting for me that it would make this post super long, so I think I’ll save it for a separate post.

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]]> https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2012/08/09/new-york-city-part-ii/feed/ 0 1537 Axis and Allies 1940 Battle Calculator/Simulator https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2010/12/24/axis-and-allies-1940-battle-calculatorsimulator/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2010/12/24/axis-and-allies-1940-battle-calculatorsimulator/#comments Sat, 25 Dec 2010 01:20:56 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/axis-and-allies-1940-battle-calculatorsimulator This is a program I made for calculating the odds for battles in Axis and Allies 1940.  It follows the combat rules for the game and counts the average probability of victory/defeat including IPC values lost. This program is released under the GPL.

Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/aa40battlecalc/files/Battle%20Calculator%20Binary/ (requires Java)

Features:

  • Land and naval battles
  • Coastal bombardments from Cruisers and Battleships
  • Option for ground units that must survive to capture the territory
  • Option for aircraft that must land on an Aircraft Carrier
  • User specifiable option for how many trials to do
  • Follows combat rules from Axis and Allies 1940 (Europe and Pacific) such as:
    • Regular land battle rules (dice rolling)
    • Order of taking casualties
    • Submarine first strike and can be negated by Destroyer
    • Planes cannot hit Submarines unless the planes are accompanied by a Destroyer
    • Artillery-supported Infantry and Mechanized Infantry
    • Fighter-supported Tactical Bombers
    • Wounds on Battleships and Aircraft Carriers
  • Statistics for:
    • Attacker/defender win/loss/tie percentages
    • IPC cost of both armies
    • IPC loss of both armies
    • Units remaining of both armies

SourceForge Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/aa40battlecalc/

Source Code: https://sourceforge.net/projects/aa40battlecalc/files/Battle%20Calculator%20Source/

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