but it did not stop me dreaming, and of course the main problem is size, so I was interested to hear that an aircraft carrier was up for sale from the Brazilian Navy, so it will certainly be big enough to live on board, I decided to look up a few facts about the carrier, France
sold Foch to Brazil in 2000, and the renamed Sao Paulo carried
out exercises and launched Brazil’s AF-1 Skyhawk attack planes from her flat,
catapult-launch deck, similar to U.S. carriers and the Charles de Gaulle,
France’s sole remaining fleet carrier, Brazil paid
France $12 million for the carrier but sank $100 million more keeping her
seaworthy, fires broke out aboard the vessel at least twice, once in 2004 and again 2012, the accidents forced costly repairs
and kept the carrier in port for long periods of time, Sao Paulo
was supposed to rejoin the fleet in 2013, but the accidents kept sidelining
her. “By the end of 2016, Sao Paulo was still undergoing repairs and
there were reports that it might take another decade to get the ship fully
operational again,” Joe Trevithick noted at The War Zone, “By the
time the Brazilian navy finally decided to just retire the ship in 2017, it was
the world's oldest commissioned aircraft carrier,” Trevithick continued, “In
the better part of two decades that the flattop had flown the Brazilian flag,
she had spent just 206 days at sea.” so a bit unreliable then, and where do I get $1.275 million from as the opening bid? also where would I park it? no I think we will stick with the flat! but it has to be said, a snip considering what was paid for it, and the money spent on repairs! picture source: Brazilian Navy.
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