battles for carriers, as Shangri-La was chosen as the name of a carrier whose construction was ordered later in the same year. At her launching, Josephine Doolittle, wife of James Doolittle who had led the 1942 raid, christened the ship. USS Shangri-La was commissioned into service in Sep...
The aircraft, which is designed to fly from/to aircraft carriers, accommodates one pilot and three system operators. Few details of the aircraft are released but it is reported to have a wing-span of 19.3 m (63.3 ft), an overall length of 15.5 m (51 ft), max. mass of 25 535 kg ...
With changing tactics, thanks to the use of aircraft carriers, as developed by the Japanese Navy itself (in the Pearl Harbor strike), battleships were necessarily only in a secondary role, one for which, however, they were rarely used, since they were thought too valuable to risk, being hel...
ww2dbaseOf the seventeen Essex-class aircraft carriers to be commissioned during World War II, USS Bennington was the eleventh. Built at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York, United States, Bennington was built according to the original Essex specifications rather than the updated long-h...
The San Diego-based company plans to begin customer deliveries in the early 2030s, aligning with commercial carriers' fleet purchasing decisions to meet the airline industry's 2050 net-zero goals. The Horizon will compete in the same payload class as Boeing's 737 Max and the Airbus A320 narro...
Essex was a class of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy, which constituted the 20th century's most numerous class of heavy warships, with 24 ships built in both "short-hull" and "long-hull" versions. Thirty-two were originally ordered, however six were canceled before construction, ...
June 8, 2011, It flared up again, the accusations and arguments and counter arguments in the IATA AGM in Singapore. Mr. Giovanni Bsignani the outgoing Director General of IATA called for an end of the dispute between Gulf carriers and European/North American carriers in a civilized manner.Rea...
In 2022, Surf Air generated pro forma revenues of just over $100 million and, based on its recent third-quarter results, appears to be on track to exceed this amount for 2023. Many of the air services provided by the Surf Air flight booking platform are provided by other carriers,...
1 Feb 1942 The United States launched its first air offensive against the Marshall Islands as SBD and TBD aircraft from carriers USS Yorktown and USS Enterprise struck Japanese bases in the island group. Cruisers USS Northampton, USS Chester, and USS Salt Lake City also bombarded atolls in the...
larger carriers in the US fleet. Between Apr and Aug 1942, Ranger made three ferry runs to western Africa with deck loads of Army fighter aircraft. In the midst of those voyages on 30 May 1942, during a stop at Quonset Point, Rhode Island, Captain Calvin Durgin relieved Captain Harrill ...