Does anyone know of any source for hangar deck plans for CVN-65?
Taubman’s Enterprise Plans do not have a hangar deck.
Floating Drydock’s Enterprise Plans do not have a hangar deck.
I have a good deck outline supplied by a net poster. However, i need something that shows the locations things, such as the doors, within the hangar.
What in particular do you need? I’m going onboard the “Prize” (no one around here calls her the “Big E” anymore) today to do a little look see and will try to help you out if possible. “Prize” as in booby, by the way.
I need a plan to complete the hangar deck. It doesn’t need to be that precise, just the location of the walls, dividers doors, fire fighting stations, etc.
Well, they won’t let me take pictures, but I can make a rough sketch of it. The only hard part would be getting it to you.
USS Enterprise In Detail
by Squadron/Signal Publications.
The World’s First Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carrier “The USS Enterprise” is Focused On in This Squadron/Signal Detail & Scale, by author Bert Kinzey.
72 page softcover book.
Detailed, technical, and accurate!
Provides the most comprehensive coverage of this type available anywhere in military publications.
CVAN-65 to CVN-65.
Emphasis on the physical details of the ship–from bow to stern, and from the top of the mast to below the waterline.
All of the ship’s details are covered with extensive color and black-and-white photography.
A record of the ship’s history is also presented.
Changes made during yard periods and overhauls are illustrated.
For scale modelers, a complete modeler’s section is provided that reviews all of the presently available scale model kits of the ship
and it also covers the after-market decals that can be obtained for
these kits.
Retail price: $14.95
I used this book for my 1:350 Tamiya USS Enterprise model.
This is a really good reference book for the USS Enterprise and has good images of the Hanger Deck.
Is now dated, but still worth the money.
Good luck.
Regards,
Beau.
Well, there you go. Thanks for making my assignment easier, Beau. I try to avoid the Prize as much as I can. Nimitz class boats are a little less complicated.
The book is a good way to go, but it was done before the Prise’s last trip to the yard which was finished in 1994.
John
Just got off the phone with my son(spent 3 years of the Prize) plans will be hard to get, the one’s he had access to were classified material, not for distrubtion.
John
Hangar deck:
I also have the Taubman plans. No hangar. However the Hangar itself is a “box” that starts on elevator number 4 and ends on elevator number 1. It has two fire walls ( I think they’re fire walls) in the first and second thirds of that box lenght but normally those doors are open and the hangar is a full see throught. There’s a model of a Tamiya Enterprise on the web with a scrathbuilt hangar. If you wish I may find it, but I’m pretty sure these pictures will help you make your hangar
The Enterprise in Detail is the best all around reference work I’ve found, but as mentioned, is now dated, and would not be accurate to model the ship as she appears today. I used it (wore it out is a better way to describe it) building my kit. Anyone who has built the Tamiya kit will find that there are quite a few glaring ommissions and modifications required to make the kit resemble the ship as she was in most of the photos. My two biggest gripes were the inaccuracy of the area at the stern under the “round down”, and the complete absence of the LSO platform and the structure outboard of the island. I also had to lengthen the forward portside sponson. I suspect that like many other areas, these were modified in the yard sometime after the tools for the model were made.
Tom Hathaway.
finescale modeller did a full review of tamiya 1/350 kit including hanger deck. article now probably 5-8 years old but plenty of sites on web for accuracy from outside. just type in cvn65 as search subject. anm official website exists with heaps of colour photos including hangar deck
Hey Nuno, essas fotos não são do tal CD, ou são???
Definitivamente precisamos de falar… se estiveres disposto a dar uma mãozinha…
Já agora, o que tens por aí referente ao USS Enterprise???
Talvez possamos “trocar” algumas informações…
I also have the Taubman plans. No hangar. However the Hangar itself is a “box” that starts on elevator number 4 and ends on elevator number 1.
That’s one of the issues. Is the hangar deck a rectangular box or do the walls curve to follow the hull? Or is is partially rectangular with tapers?