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Saturday, February 26, 2011
Shipyard cuts first steel for next carrier; funding remains in flux
Three Hampton Roads congressmen, Navy officials and Newport News shipyard executives donned ceremonial safety glasses and hardhats Friday, but stood idly by while Wayne Kania, a shipyard machine hand specialist, punched a few orders into his computer.
Kania set in motion a hulking machine that fired a flaming mix of oxygen and propane onto a 2.5-inch slab of American steel, cutting two bevels that will allow the sheet to be welded to another, teaming to form a part of the understructure of a new aircraft carrier.
The event at Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Newport News shipyard marked an important milestone in the life of the yet-unnamed CVN-79 aircraft carrier: The official beginning of construction.
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