Somethings about the USS Enterprise

ENTERPRISE Facts & Stats Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Virginia Ordered: November 15, 1957 Number of Designers: 915 Number of Drawings Made: 16,100 Miles of Blueprints Made: 2,400  Keel Laid: February 4, 1958 Launched: September 24, 1960 Commissioned: November 25, 1961 Maiden Voyage: January 12, 1962 Original Cost to Build: $451.3 million Horsepower: 200,000+ Top Speed: 30+ knots Length: 1,123 feet Beam: 257 feet Height (KeelContinue reading “Somethings about the USS Enterprise”

Some facts and Aircraft of the Enterprise now

ENTERPRISE Facts & Stats Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Virginia Ordered: November 15, 1957 Number of Designers: 915 Number of Drawings Made: 16,100 Miles of Blueprints Made: 2,400  Keel Laid: February 4, 1958 Launched: September 24, 1960 Commissioned: November 25, 1961 Maiden Voyage: January 12, 1962 Original Cost to Build: $451.3 million Horsepower: 200,000+ Top Speed: 30+ knots Length: 1,123 feet Beam: 257 feet Height (KeelContinue reading “Some facts and Aircraft of the Enterprise now”

USS Enterprise on the way out

Remember doing exercises in the South China Sea with the group     Navy’s USS Enterprise embarks on final voyage Longest-serving aircraft carrier was at center of historic events   Reporter profile More by Douglas Gillison   Posted Mar 11, 2012, 11:08 am Douglas GillisonGlobal Post After 50 years, the longest-serving aircraft carrier in U.S.Continue reading “USS Enterprise on the way out”

USS Enterprise on the way out

Remember doing exercises in the South China Sea with the group     Navy’s USS Enterprise embarks on final voyage Longest-serving aircraft carrier was at center of historic events   Reporter profile More by Douglas Gillison   Posted Mar 11, 2012, 11:08 am Douglas GillisonGlobal Post After 50 years, the longest-serving aircraft carrier in U.S.Continue reading “USS Enterprise on the way out”

Did many exercises with Enterprise in the South China Sea

Navy’s USS Enterprise embarks on final voyage Longest-serving aircraft carrier was at center of historic events Reporter profile More by Douglas Gillison Posted Mar 11, 2012, 11:08 am Douglas GillisonGlobal Post After 50 years, the longest-serving aircraft carrier in U.S. Navy, famed as the aircraft carrier used in the 1986 film “Top Gun,” will embarkContinue reading “Did many exercises with Enterprise in the South China Sea”