Interior,, insperation, a tour of USS Pampano

[yubba]

http://www.maritime.org/tour/atr.php?pano=nr anyway to make this work in the game..of course I got the name wrong....you can use mouse to pan around pic and select other compartments,.

[hotrod1525]

Thank You Yubba! What a great site. I made it one of my favorites for future reference.

[yubba]

You' re welcome, I seen it a while back, everybody is struggle-ing to do interiors why not try this. I'm ok with static interiors it would be better than nothing,,and would add something to the game and wouldn't be a drag on the pc..,, you are the captain you don't load torpedoes or turn wrenches on the engines,,,your job is to keep your men sharp and do the mission and get the boat home afterwards..

[Bubblehead729]

What a fantastic site. I highly recommend everyone bookmark this, and take the virtual tour; but clear some time....there is a lot to absorb here.
:rock:

[AndytotheD]

Speaking of Balao class interiors, how do you pronounce "Balao"?

[yubba]

first I had to wipe the drewl from chin.

[vickers03]

just made an interior skin based on the pampanito
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/downloads.php?do=file&id=3752

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/downloads/balao_sh4_ct_55Q.jpg

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/downloads/balao_sh4_cr_H33.jpg

[AndytotheD]

You just made me very happy.

[Sailor Steve]

Lovely. :sunny:

[ReallyDedPoet]

Nice : )

[Sledgehammer427]

Speaking of Balao class interiors, how do you pronounce "Balao"?

I always pronounced "Buh-LAY-oh"
Buh as in Bug

[BigWalleye]

dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/balao) says it's

buh-lou (emphasis on 1st syllable)

but I had always heard

bu-lahw

It's from Spanish, so the ao is a diphthong (pronounced together.)

Does the skin drop into SH4? It looks really sharp.

[Sailor Steve]

Yes, it's from Spanish, just like Gato. The men who sailed on her, however, pronounced it as Sledgehammer427 described, just as the other boat's crew pronounced it "Gay-toh".

[BigWalleye]

Wow! It must have been really cool to have talked with all the guys from the Balao and Gato personally!

[AndytotheD]

Thanks for the pronunciations, I really appreciate it.
Furthermore, my TMO has never looked better!

[arnahud2]

@Vickers03 : thanks for this great job (balao interior), as usual :up:

[JuergenSchT]

I liked the tour. Really interesting. However,

It's from Spanish, so the ao is a diphthong (pronounced together.)
In Spanish, "ao" is to be considered a hiatus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiatus_%28linguistics%29), so "a" and "o" belong to two different syllables. Just my two cents.

[BigWalleye]

Then what would be the correct Spanish pronunciation?

[JuergenSchT]

It would be "ba-la-o" (IPA: /ba.'la.o/).

[BigWalleye]

Was Googling when I saw a link and it dawned on me: Balao isn't Spanish. It's Portugese, with a tilde over the a. (Means "balloon" although that fish doesn't look much like one.) Heard the Portugese pronunciation on-line, but couldn't reproduce it phonetically. Doesn't matter anyway. Everyone will call it what they want.

[Jeffg]

The On Deck color series has one called USS Pampanito by Robert C. Stern and it is a full tour of the boat outside and inside with nothing left out. This is a great book.

JeffG

[yubba]

dust this off for the holidays

[comotoasty]

I was in San Francisco last weekend and tried to view the sub, but the pier had no power and the sub was closed for tours. I was very disapointed. I did get to see the USS Hornet in Alameda as a consolation.

[yubba]

At one time or another I had family so far up in the Airforce I got a first class tour of the SAC base in Omaha Nebraska even got to sit in the pilot seat of Looking Glass the 707 type back in the day,, on my 16th birthday, they look more roomy on TV and what did I go and do,,, join the Marines.:/\\!!