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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Upon his return to Kitty Hawk for the first time in five years ... making my great-great-great-uncle not only the first airplane passenger, but one of the very few who could claim to have flown ...

IT’S ALL ORVILLE’S FAULT. THE WRIGHT BROTHERS' FIRST POWERED AIRPLANE made four short flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903. After the last one, as the brothers stood ...

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 Wright Flyer III featured a host of improvements to the Wright Flyer I, the plane in which the Wrights pioneered powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on Dec. 17, 1903. Those included ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio has adopted the 1905 Wright Flyer III as its official state airplane. Described as Orville and Wilbur Wright's crowning achievement, the world's first practical fixed-wing ...