It wasn't always this way: During the years of the Cold War, the Soviet Union had seven aircraft carriers from three different classes, and they transported a mix of helicopters and fighter jets.
See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.
The former USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier sailed out of Philadelphia Thursday and is scheduled to be dismantled when it ...
First flying in September 1964, the TSR.2 was designed as a tactical strike and reconnaissance aircraft capable of speeds up ...
The aircraft carrier, which has been docked in South Philadelphia since 2008, will make its exit through the Delaware River.