CVN-77 nearing completion
Posted on 10/03/2006 8:06:52 AM PDT by Jeff Head
CVN-77 to be Christened on October 7th, 2006
From the Northrop Grumman site.
On Saturday, October 7, 2006, Northrop Grumman Newport News will christen the nation’s 10th and final Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, George H. W. Bush (CVN 77). The ship’s namesake and 41st President of the United States, George H. W. Bush, is scheduled to attend the ceremony along with his wife Barbara and their daughter, Doro Bush Koch, Mrs. Koch also serves as the ship’s sponsor and will do the traditional honor of breaking a bottle of American sparkling wine across the ship’s bow during the ceremony. Employees of Northrop Grumman Newport News and their families are invited. The general public is also invited to the ceremony. Visit the links below for additional information.Here are some of the latest construction pictures...a beautiful site to behold:
CVN-77 nearing completion
CVN-77 props added
CVN-77 Island lift
CVN-77 ready for christening
CVN-77 another view of CVN-77 ready for christening
Oops, didn't read the whole thread, and I now see you answered that in # 93.
[When does construction begin on the USS Clinton?
January 20, 2009. This name should have never been allowed.]
Is this true?
USS Stephen Decatur, Jr., for the hero of the Barbary Pirate Wars.
Kitty Hawk benefited from the TLC care over there in Yokosuka.
I made many trips up to the Radome{??} on trouble calls due to high temps but never up the mast.
The USS Clinton be a floating brothel.
I can just see it now. The flight deck covered in lava lamps and love beads. Old bongs everywhere.
What a sight to behold!
True and got her required yard times in. That proves maintenance counts and saves money and ships too.
Only if Rudy doesn't get the nomination...
Kitty Hawk also benefitted from being the last conventional carrier SLEPed. She finished hers in 1991. Kennedy never received the full SLEP treatment.
Kitty Hawk also benefitted from being the last conventional carrier SLEPed. She finished hers in 1991. Kennedy never received the full SLEP treatment.
The first CVN21 carrier will start major construction in 2008. I hope by that time, the name of that first vessel will already be decided well before a potential democrat comnes in...and I still believe that a democrat will not come into office. I certainly do not believe that the first one will be Clinton. Some believe Ford gets the next one which I also hope is not true.
The next carrier starts construction five years later, in 2013, which will be into the next presidential cycle.
Very true.
Nor did the AMERICA. It didn't make a bit of sense to SLEP the oldest carrier in the class instead of the newer ones. In 1989 it was already pretty much laid out we were to downsize the Navy. That being the case running our two newest conventions into the ground while at the same time preserving the oldest one of the two classes was foolish and wasted money. They could have been kept as trainers. Actually the JFK went in and out of unofficial reserve status throughout the Clinton years.
Also has a nasty habit of shooting at low flying missiles' radar reflection off the water instead of the real target.
I suppose if we have to, we should name a minesweeper after Clinton.
"...Ok SO the USS ROOSEVELT (CVN 71) is called the "Big Stick"
And the USS REAGAN (CVN 76) is called the "Gipper"
What is the nickname of the USS H.W. BUSH (CVN 77) going to be?..."
What will be the nickname for the klinton? "The bent one"
I like it but I'm sticking to the second has to be "Enterprise"!
I still like the the name Shanksville. And have a special dispensation and make her hull number 93. CVN-93, USS Shanksville.
Yes, and the white stripes on the deck will be Cocaine, not paint.
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