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Saturday, November 07, 2009

Ford carrier's keel to be laid Nov. 14

USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78)A week from today, the strongest gantry crane in the Western Hemisphere will lift into place an 81-foot by 96-foot hunk of steel, the first building block of the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier.

In a keel-laying ceremony at Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Newport News shipyard the morning of Nov. 14, a gang of workers will hoist the 900-ton structure into Dry Dock 12 in front of a gaggle of top Navy officials and dignitaries, including the late President Gerald R. Ford's daughter, Susan Ford Bales, who is also the ship's sponsor.

The event marks the first major construction milestone for the 1,092-foot, nuclear-powered Ford, the lead ship in a new class of Navy carriers that is scheduled to enter the fleet in 2015.

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