Off the Japanese coast, April 15, 2002: A flight deck “shooter” signals as an F-18 Hornet from VFA-195 prepares to launch from the USS Kitty Hawk’s flight deck.

ABOARD THE USS KITTY HAWK, April 15, 2002: A flight deck crew member aboard the USS Kitty Hawk carries a device that displays the weight on an aircraft prior to launch.

More than 2,000 people gathered to say goodbye to the USS Kitty Hawk, a 48-year-old ... They talked about watching the sky light up from the flight deck during a nuclear test off the ...

Named after the North Carolina site where the Wright brothers took flight in their “heavier-than-air machine” in 1903, Kitty Hawk was hailed as the first in a “new and greatly improved line ...

What You Need to Know: The USS America (CVA/CV-66), a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, was sunk in 2005 after weeks of controlled explosions as part of a live-fire test to study how a large ...

The dismantling of the last conventionally powered aircraft carrier in service with the US Navy, USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63). **Timeline:** 0:00 The Dismantling of USS Kitty Hawk 1:30 Arrival at the ...

The USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) prepares to anchor in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor on April 28, 2008. This was the ship's last overseas port visit before being relieved by USS George Washington (CVN 73 ...

Burleson man shares a gripping story of courage and faith while recalling the 1973 USS Kitty Hawk fire ... “As we entered the ladder well when leaving the flight deck on the port side of the ...

080428-N-7883G-683 HONG KONG (April 28, 2008) – USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) prepares to anchor in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor April 28. This is Kitty Hawk’s last overseas port visit before being ...

Montel Williams recalls when the famous USS ... he was deployed as a special duty intelligence officer on the USS Kitty Hawk in the Indian Ocean when two fighter jets collided on the flight deck.

In the late eighties, the USS Kitty Hawk was overhauled ... 17 feet shorter than the Kitty Hawk carriers, with a novel smokestack that tilts outboard to pump gas away from the flight deck.

Aircraft crowd the flight deck of USS America ... (SLEP), the Navy spent $785 million on extensive refitting and repair on USS Kitty Hawk and another $800 million on USS Constellation.