PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — The U.S. Navy is celebrating 100 years of aircraft carriers in active service with the recognition of the first aircraft carrier, the USS Langley (CV-1), which was converted ...

In 1922, US Navy collier USS Jupiter was converted into the aircraft carrier USS Langley Langley was the US Navy's first aircraft carrier, but it only spent 15 years in service in that role. USS ...

While the December 2021 edition of Maritime Reporter & Engineering News examines 'Great Ships' delivered this calendar year, Edward Lundquist takes a look back into U.S. Navy history and America's ...

In March 1922, the U.S. Navy launched a bold experiment that really took off. Behold its first-ever aircraft carrier. Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where he's worked since 2000. A ...

Aircraft carriers are synonymous with strength, power, and the ability to wield them anywhere in the world. But it wasn't always this way. There was a time when carriers were little more than cargo ...

One of the most enduring symbols of American military power is the aircraft carrier. Langley was the first Navy ship to feature a catapult for launching aircraft and arrestor wires for recovering them ...

The lessons learned from the Langley’s decade of carrier flight operations in the interwar period directly influenced the design of subsequent, more advanced carriers of that era. Recently, the United ...

From 1945 until 1993, anyone staring across Pensacola Bay saw the silhouette of an aircraft carrier, notable among them the historic USS Lexington (AVT 16). Yet these training carriers were not the ...

A nearly 6-foot-long model of the USS Langley on display here for the past year and a half is heading for the big time. In a little while — the date hasn’t been set — the model built by William ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Model builder Roger Torgeson has built dozens of detailed models of Navy ships, but curiously has never built a replica of the one he served on during the Vietnam War. The Sequim man ...