I don’t think thats right, wrt 25%. But I can ask the Admiral, hubby and others who have been on many sea trials when I see them if they think or know if the Big E did 50.
I don’t know for sure that Big E has done 50 knots, but I heard quite a few stories while I was aboard about her flying past destroyers and other ships in the Indian Ocean.
But then again you hear a lot of stories at sea.
Holw cow, that’s 60 M.P.H.
As I said, I doubt she hit 50 but I leave open the possibility.
My experience was on Old Oil burners, not the most powerful vessel in the history of the world.
Even so, you could probably launch a Spad by just letting go.
Hull speed at that length is less than 45 knots, but with the kind of power available to Enterprise, who knows? Getting up on plane would be out of the question, but you could certainly climb the bow wave.
I’ve been told she could sustain 60 mph, by someone who was in a position to know how far the ship traveled from one point in the ocean to another in an urgent situation.
She can outrun all her surface support pretty quickly, that’s for sure.
You should try driving this. They never let me drive 
The one I flew is operated by Jetwarbirds . I’ve been back a few times to fly their other planes too, but the MiG is still the real badass in my mind.
I am a flight instructor myself, in much more sedate aircraft. But I don’t do it for a living. If I did, there’s no way I could afford to fly jets as a hobby!
Too cool… * looking at checkbook. *
On a school trip to Florida when I was 16, we toured a dragline in a phosphate mine. It was made by Bucyrus Erie and had a 65 cubic yard bucket. My father had a small construction company with a pair of Bucyrus Erie 22-B’s, each with a 3/4 yard bucket. I was struck with awe.
Per the local paper, in an article about the builders of the X-craft:
Definitely the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald when I was about 8 years old.
Also been in a C-5 Galaxy . But not when it was flying.
