But the point of that is I flew in three very distinct generations of fighters F-4, Phantom ... bringing the USS Enterprise on her last deployment as a 51 year old aircraft carrier.

Painted in distinctive black schemes with a Playboy Bunny adorning the tail, mimicking an aircraft of the prominent ...

While McDonnell’s second aircraft named Phantom, the F-4, is more widely known ... Commander James Jennings Davidson landed aboard the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) off the coast of Norfolk ...

Production of the Phantom peaked at a rate of more than 70 aircraft a month and by 1979, when production ceased, 5,195 had been built. The last Navy F-4 made its final "trap" (carrier landing) aboard ...

Both the Phantom and Tomcat platforms were delivered to Iran prior to the fall of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the ...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (KPLC) - A piece of U.S. history was laid to rest this past weekend as the USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier was towed to Brownsville, Texas. The USS John F. Kennedy CV-67 ...

On Dec. 22, the USS Gettysburg crew fired on an F/A-18 that had just flown off the deck of the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, destroying the aircraft and forcing its two ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — U.S. Navy veteran Michael Broussard proudly recalls his service aboard what he calls "the world's most famous battleship", the USS Missouri. "I was 18 years old when I got on ...

The decommissioned aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy embarked on its final journey to be dismantled earlier this week. The Kennedy was moored at the Navy's Inactive Ships Maintenance Facility in ...

A composite image shows the decommissioned aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, left, next to a photo illustration of the future Ford-class supercarrier bearing the same name.Joshua Karsten/US Navy ...

The ex-aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy began its final journey to the scrapyard ... Comprised of the first-in-class Kitty Hawk, USS Constellation, USS America, and the Kennedy, the vessels were the ...