Photo #: NH 93834
USS United States (CVA-58)
Preliminary design model undergoing seakeeping tests at the David
Taylor Model Basin, Carderock, Maryland, circa 1947. This is
an early version of the CVA-58 design, without catapult sponsons.
Note the folding smokestacks in the "down" position.
Aircraft models on the flight deck appear to represent the F7U
fighter and a notional heavy attack bomber.
Copied from a photograph in File F-3, B-36 Carrier Charactoristics
File in the records of OP-23, held by the Operational Archives
Branch, Naval Historical Center, 1982.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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