Huntington Ingalls Completes Flight Deck For John F. Kennedy Carrier
July 15 2019
Huntington Ingalls Industries has announced the installation of the final primary hull section of the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy.
The upper bow section, installed on July 11 at the Huntington Ingalls yard in Newport News, Va., was one of the last steel structural units, known as a superlift, to be placed on the ship.
The 780-ton superlift took 18 months to construct, said a release from the shipbuilder.
The Kennedy, the second ship in the Gerald R. Ford class, incorporates...
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