Launching pad on the USS Kitty Hawk

Item

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363-02603.jpg

Digital Object Identifier

363-02603

Title

Launching pad on the USS Kitty Hawk

Description

Original caption: "Steam seeps through a catapult launching pad on the Seventh Fleet aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, following a launching of a 43,000-pound A6 Intruder. Preparing to takeoff is another A6. These low-level attack bombers can be launched at 15-second intervals and recovered 30 seconds apart. The A6, which has among it many sophisticated instruments, radar, a computer, a television screen and inertial-navigation gear. These instruments enable the twin-jet bomber to find its way to a target and back in weather so bad that the pilot cannot see beyond his wingtip." A jet prepares to take off from an aircraft carrier. A sailor stands in a cloud of smoke on deck, probably from another jet that just took off.

Date

1967, Apr. 1

Subject

Vietnam War, 1961-1975; United States. Navy. Fleet, 7th; Catapults (Aeronautics); Aircraft carriers; Kitty Hawk (Aircraft carrier); Intruder (Jet attack plane); Jet planes, military;

Location

South Vietnam

Coordinates

10.8231; 106.6297

Size

20 x 25 cm

Container

B146, F3

Format

black-and-white prints (photographs)

Collection Number

MS 363

Collection Title

Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers

Creator

United States. Navy. Fleet, 7th

Collector

Keever, Beverly Deepe

Copyright Information

These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.

Publisher

Archives & Special Collections

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