US Fleet Carriers from Langley to Ford Class

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii ~ August 22 ~ 28, 1991
Midway was relieved as the Navy's forward-based aircraft carrier by USS Independence, CV-62 in what was known as The Great Carrier Swap-Out. Midway continued on to NAS North Island in San Diego, California, where she was decommissioned in 1992 and towed to Bremerton, Washington

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test bd said:

Midway's angle deck is the same or nearly the same as an Nimitz class. I remember that from some USN training..

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FORBIN said:

For its positioning very offset at an angle to the outside surely done for compensate an inferior size ok carrier's specialist

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Obi Wan Russell said:

The picture does contain some distortion of perspective, the actual angle of Midway's deck was about ten degrees. the same as the angles of the Nimitz. kitty Hawk and Forrestal classes too.

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Not many have seen the B-52 flyby, though, from the perspective of the carrier (USS Ranger)

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Moored in numerical order at Piers No. 11 and 12 at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia VA (USA), are the U.S. Navy aircraft carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), USS Nimitz (CVN-68), USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), and USS America (CV-66).

Date 18 October 1985

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