The Navy made significant modifications to the U-2 to enhance the high-flying aircraft’s ability to land aboard a carrier.

Aerial port stern view of the U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) as it prepares to commence cyclic flight operations off the coast of Australia on Aug. 18, 2006. Currently underway ...

The United States aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk is on its way to a scrapyard in Texas and too large to slip through the Panama Canal, the ship must sail around South America. In her 16,000-mile ...

By December 1903, their first airplane (Flyer I, later renamed Kitty Hawk)was ready to test. It had a 12.3 meter (40 1/2 feet) wingspan, was 6.4 meters (21 feet) long, and weighed about 274 kilos ...

Kitty Hawk was accompanied by eight escorts when ... From nuclear near-misses to tense standoffs at sea and in the air, the Cold War was very hot. The pop culture of the era was chock full ...

The USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy’s last non-nuclear powered aircraft carrier, is at Brownsville, Texas, to begin a two-year ...

One of his most ambitious projects was restoring a vintage Kittyhawk fighter airplane, used by the Allies against the Japanese in the Second World War. MORE: B.C.‘s Granger Taylor left a note ...

At the end of 1901 the Wrights had confirmed, by ingenious wind-tunnel experiments, their belief that all published tables of air pressures on curved surfaces were in ...

The Ohio Historical Markers identify, commemorate and honor the important people, places and events that have contributed to the state's rich history.

Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest 1977-2015: Season 1 ...

In August 1963, in the dead of night, under the cover of darkness, a Navy crane was used to hoist a U-2 onto the deck of the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier. As the Kitty Hawk steamed north from ...