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If someone pee'd in your corn flakes please do not take it out on me

If you go to the NavSource website you will see that you are the one full of BS.

The entire Forrestal class was 56,000 tons as delivered. Go sell your BS to some one else.

I'll bet I can guess what the AA stands for, but I can't say it here.

The major difference in the Forestall Class wasn't weight of those in it's class or even conventionals to follow. It was the Boilers and Engineering Plant. Forestall although the first in it's class was a 600 psi plant and Srartoga and the rest of the two conventional classes to follow thereafter including the KH class and JFK were 1200 psi plants. The unloaded displacement was within a thousand or so tons from CV-59-67 on conventionals. Big E the nuke is the exception weighing in 10,000 tons more on light and full displacement. http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/NAME.HTM

Each carrier had a few quirks that set it apart from the rest. America for example had a Sonar Dome the others didn't. You could hear it loud and clear if you slept at water level like I did. Being on a carrier at Flank speed is an experience indeed. The ship takes on a completely different feel underway but changes again at Flank. We ran around Messiana one night at flank transiting it several times. The Old Girl was at flank and turning as well. Only a few onboard know the real top end speeds. Bridge would know, Central would know, the MMR's would know or ENG SECCON, and FWD IC definately would know as thats where the brain was located IIRC :>}.