A crewmember of a U.S. Army MH-47D Chinook medium lifthelicopter of the 2nd Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment assist in manually folding the rotor blades for parking on the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN-73) during Fleet Exercise 2-94. It takes from 30 to 45 minutes to manually fold up the rotors. Navy helos have automatic gear that does the job in 2 to 3 minutes
Summary
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Subject Operation/Series: FLEET EXERCISE 2-94
Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)
Scene Camera Operator: JOC Gregg Snaza
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Aircraft carriers are warships that act as airbases for carrier-based aircraft. In the United States Navy, these consist of ships commissioned with hull classification symbols CV (aircraft carrier), CVA (attack aircraft carrier), CVB (large aircraft carrier), CVL (light aircraft carrier), CVN (aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion) and CVAN (attack aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion). The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the United States Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922.
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