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Air department Sailors assigned to the launch and recovery division aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) watch as a large cloud of steam rises towards the sky during no-load tests.
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Atlantic Ocean (Dec. 21, 2006) Air department Sailors assigned to the launch and recovery division aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) watch as a large cloud of steam rises towards the sky during no-load tests on the flight decks steam-powered waist catapults. Truman is currently underway conducting sea trials after spending nearly a year undergoing a Docked Planned Incremental Availability (DPIA) period at Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) in Portsmouth, Va. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kristopher Wilson File# 061221-N-5345W-007
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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