Wednesday, 16 March 2011

USS John F Kennedy

I was having a lot of luck on this trip when it came to sitting on the “right” side of the aircraft or should I say the “correct” side as on most occasions the “right” side was in fact the left side.

This is a photograph of the USS John F Kennedy the last none nuclear aircraft carrier to be built in the US. Decommissioned in 2007 she now resides in the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF) in Philadelphia. She is earmarked to become a museum but at 60,000 tonnes (lightweight) you are going to need a big display cabinet !!!

More details on this fascinating ship can be found at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_John_F._Kennedy_%28CV-67%29

I cannot identify the carrier next to it, answers on a postcard.....

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