Build To Order: One Aircraft Carrier

Fortune ^ | July 22, 2002 | Philip Siekman

[LibKill]

Impressive.

And I hope it scares the poo out of our enemies.

[MosesKnows]

4 1/2 acres of flight deck

Four and one-half acres of a sovereign America.

Thank you, a very impressive article.

[TADSLOS]

Freedom's newest projection platform, courtesy of the good old USA. Is this a great country or what?

[SevenDaysInMay]

China, aided by Clintons' treasonous corruption, believes that they can sink these capital ships and that Americans will shrink from the threat.

[Mr. Thorne]

Big Ron

Kewl...

[Paleo Conservative]

China, aided by Clintons' treasonous corruption, believes that they can sink these capital ships and that Americans will shrink from the threat.

We ought to expedite the CVNX class. It is supposedly being designed without an island in order to be stealthy.

[G.Mason]

Great post and read. Thanks

[ken5050]

Great article..thanks for posting......I saw the Harry Truman when it was still just the bottom, or "keel level"..it is indeed amazing to realize that the entire bottom is flat as a pancake.....Archimedes be damned, you wonder why/how the thing manages to float....

[Centurion2000]

bump

[spectre]

Sink a U.S. Carrier, swallow a nuke.

[Mr. Bird]

Its successor, the so far unnamed CVN-77, will be delivered in early 2008

Any suggestions? USS Trade Center?

[Al B.]

Many of the 17,800 employees of Newport News are from families that have worked in the yard for generations. Among them, says one manager, there is "a fierce identity with the company, a long and proud tradition." That tradition goes back to the yard's founding in 1886.

"For those who think Americans don't build anything worthwhile these days, I say go down to Newport News and watch those great men and women build mountains of steel that float, move and fly airplanes off the top.  It truly is the 'NNS' miracle."

-- Tom Clancy from his non-fiction book, "Carrier"

USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) just prior to floating out of her building dock in March, 2001

[Free the USA]

Index Bump

[Poohbah]

Rumor has it that CVN-77 will be the USS Lexington.

[Mr. Bird]

Isn't there already a decommissioned Lexington functioning as a museum? It is a carrier as well. Do they duplicate names like that?

[Poohbah]

Yes, as long as the ship in question is decommissioned. When the Lexington decommissioned in 1991, that name became available for a new ship.

[Paleo Conservative]

Yes, as long as the ship in question is decommissioned. When the Lexington decommissioned in 1991, that name became available for a new ship.

The Lexington to which you refer was the second aircraft carrier to go by that name. The first was sunk at the Battle of the Coral Sea. The second Lexington was used as a training carrier and had to be retired because its engines wore out and broke down.

[Poohbah]

Aw, c'mon! Worn out? It was, what, only 48 years old! A veritable newbie!

[Paleo Conservative]

Its successor, the so far unnamed CVN-77, will be delivered in early 2008

Any suggestions? USS Trade Center?

What about the USS James K. Polk. Polk was one of the most succesful presidents who ever served. During his term the US annexed Texas, fought and won the US-Mexican War, and added the territories which are now the states of California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. A ship named for President Polk is not a ship to be messed with.