The
Kitty Hawk by ET2 Darren Drake |
| Click Here's some more information about the USS Kitty
Hawk.
From the cruise book, the USS Kitty hawk had its keel laid into place on Dec. 27th, 1956. Three and one half years later, on May 21st, 1960 ,the Kitty Hawk was launched by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, New Jersey. After nearly a year of rigorous testing to see if she was capable to be a fighting vessel, the USS Kitty Hawk was commissioned into the Navy, April, 29th 1961. The first captain of the Kitty Hawk was Captain W. F. Bringle. The following information is just from memory and may be wrong, however, the kitty hawk is 1032 feet long, has four engines, weighs 80,000 lbs, travels at a max speed of about 38 knots, about 45 mph, carries about eighty aircraft and has a crew of around 6,000 sailors. Click here to see pictures of he kitty hawk back in 1977 Click here to go to the Yellow Airplane Home Base. |
A Beautiful front view of the
USS Kitty Hawk, CV63
4-3-2000
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Photo from ET2 Darren Drake
Currently stationed aboard the USS Kitty Hawk
to Return to the smaller
version of this photo ,
Click here
| Hello, my name is Doug Keller, in the years
listed above I was stationed on the Hawk as a Photographers
Mate, I was in OP division, I would like to
correspond with fellow
shipmates, I too was an Hogan's Hero and I remember
the steel
beach party in the south China Sea. Small world, I will
call again.
The Kitty Hawk is one of the finest aircraft carriers that you have ever seen. An aircraft carrier like this weigh about 80,000 tons. That's a whole lot, but I guess that like all aircraft carriers this carrier is BIG |
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