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Mark Gulbrandsen
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- posted 05-27-2009 11:16 AM      Profile for Mark Gulbrandsen   Email Mark Gulbrandsen   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Thomas,

Keep up the good work! One thing to note since film sales are just about dead is that most of the machines at CLACO (all but 4 to be exact) have been scrapped out and just the parts from them shelved. The main castings and bases all went to the scrap yard. Claco has no problem supplying just about any part required for the DP-70. Many new and used parts are in stock!

The oldest machine (#607) that was in the warehouse was recently completely re-finished and overhauled. It is surely the last complete rebuilt DP-70 of which I will ever have worked on! Many mods were made to it for a Hollywood Special Effects Guru including a Sony 3000 reader top mount that still allows utilization of the upper magazine, shaft encoder to drive a dubber, internal 35/70 DTS mount in place of the mag penthouse and a Kinoton Basement SRD reader. He also got the Mag Penthouse just in case. He is replacing a Bauer U-2 with this DP-70. Bauer parts are about non-existant over here in the States so he gave up trying to keep it running...

Mark

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Thomas Hauerslev
Master Film Handler

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- posted 06-14-2009 03:58 PM      Profile for Thomas Hauerslev   Author's Homepage   Email Thomas Hauerslev   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Just added more than 100 images of DP70s today. Check them out if you like:

See the country lists: http://www.in70mm.com/dp70/country/index.htm

And feel free to send me more images and serial numbers

Cheers Thomas

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Ben Wales
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- posted 06-14-2009 04:38 PM      Profile for Ben Wales   Email Ben Wales   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
quote:
Just added more than 100 images of DP70s today. Check them out if you like:
Great work Thomas and thanks for maintaining the DP70 Spirit [thumbsup]

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Joseph Matteo
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- posted 06-15-2009 02:08 PM      Profile for Joseph Matteo   Email Joseph Matteo   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
we just screened a dvd called lady in waiting a great documentry on the uss united states here is the url for imdb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1230471/

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Mark Gulbrandsen
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- posted 06-15-2009 02:33 PM      Profile for Mark Gulbrandsen   Email Mark Gulbrandsen   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Restoring this ship SHOULD HAVE BEEN part of Obama's recovery plan!!! What a boost having that ship back in service would have been to this country...

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From an article found on the web...
"Designed by renowned naval architect William Francis Gibbs and constructed in secrecy at Newport News, Va., the United States had several features revolutionary for her day. An aluminum superstructure meant the ship was light. And two engine rooms, with a total of four steam turbines, gave her unprecedented power. In normal service, the United States could generate 240,000 shaft hp—80,000 more than the previous speed-record holder, RMS Queen Mary—while weighing almost 30,000 tons less. Her five-blade screws were also unheard of at the time."

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Adam Martin
I'm not even gonna point out the irony.

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- posted 06-15-2009 04:22 PM      Profile for Adam Martin   Author's Homepage   Email Adam Martin       Edit/Delete Post 
I realize that the ship weighs almost as much as a DP70, but WTF?

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Damien Taylor
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- posted 06-15-2009 06:44 PM      Profile for Damien Taylor   Email Damien Taylor   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Pity about her half sister, the SS America

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Michael Schaffer
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- posted 06-15-2009 06:55 PM      Profile for Michael Schaffer   Author's Homepage   Email Michael Schaffer   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Interesting article. It's kind of odd that the whole ship can disappear piece by piece in seas shallow enough for it to run aground. Where do the sunken parts go? Maybe they didn't actually sink there but were washed out to sea.

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Thomas Hauerslev
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- posted 06-16-2009 01:47 AM      Profile for Thomas Hauerslev   Author's Homepage   Email Thomas Hauerslev   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Did the United States have DP70? The French liner had DP70s - now at Todd-AO in H-wood. See pictures of the grand ship being cut up in Alang, India

http://www.maritimematters.com/norway.html

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Mark Gulbrandsen
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- posted 06-17-2009 03:30 AM      Profile for Mark Gulbrandsen   Email Mark Gulbrandsen   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Geez, A 660 seat theater on that tub... They don't build em that big here on solid ground! I don't know what was on the SS United States if anything at all...

BTW: The top speed of the SS United States was 43 knots(79.12 km/hr or 49.48 mph)... Average cruise speed was around 35.5 knots or almost 41 miles an hour. I can just hear the Captain giving the steaming orders... Ok Matie, just give er gas till half way across then kill the engines and we'll coast the rest of the way over!

Mark

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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!

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- posted 06-17-2009 06:43 AM      Profile for Steve Guttag   Email Steve Guttag   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
In fact, the United States' top speed remains a debated subject with most everyone that was famililar with her giving different numbers. It was by far, the fastest steam ship ever. Setting records for speed going either direction across the Atlantic.

I've seen her a couple of times as my travles have brought me near some of the ports where she has been docked...you can't miss those funnels. Unfortunately, it wasn't like she was in service...it just seems like people have ideas for her, sell her, move her and then the process repeats again.

I believer there is yet another entity that plans to refurb her, moderinze the accommodations and put her back into actual passenger service. The exterior will remain just about the same but the interior will be gutted (which basically is now) and redone.

Steve

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Pete Naples
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- posted 06-17-2009 03:31 PM      Profile for Pete Naples   Email Pete Naples   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
43 knots?!

I am finding that very hard to believe [Eek!]

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Mark Gulbrandsen
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- posted 06-17-2009 05:09 PM      Profile for Mark Gulbrandsen   Email Mark Gulbrandsen   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Actually the top speed of the SS United States was classified and the actual top speed may still be classified.

Mark

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Paul Mayer
Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under!

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- posted 06-17-2009 10:14 PM      Profile for Paul Mayer   Author's Homepage   Email Paul Mayer   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
quote:
43 knots?!

I am finding that very hard to believe [Eek!]
And you would be right Pete!

From a summary citation of a University of Michigan engineering paper entitled How Fast Can It Go?:

quote:
The maximum speed of the United States was deliberately exaggerated, and kept obscure for many years. An impossible value of 43 knots (49 mph) was leaked to reporters by engineers after the first speed trial. The actual top speed — 38.3 knots (44.1 mph) — was not revealed until 1977.
And now, back (hopefully) to the Norelcos...

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Steve Guttag
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quote:
Her 241,000 horsepower engines allowed her to reach a top speed of 43 knots (79.12 km/hr or 49.48 mph)* at 990'6" in length, she is the largest passenger vessel ever built in the United States.
Materials in construction included over 2,000 tons of aluminum; she has a power-to-weight ratio that has never been equaled
She could steam 10,000 miles without stopping for fuel or supplies.
The ship was totally fireproof, being constructed completely of non-flammable materials (publicists were so fond of pointing out that the only wood on board were in her pianos and the chopping blocks).
quote:
* It is now known that the SS United States achieved speeds exceeding 44
knots, or 50mph (footnote by the SS United States Foundation).
These quotes are from the http://www.ssunitedstates.org/theship.htm web site.

As I said, her top speed remains a topic of hot debate...including by those that served on her or were passengers on her. A special ship she was, regardless and definitely a speedy one...no matter which numbers you believe.

Steve

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