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USS F ORREST AL - INTERESTING FACTS The FORRESTAL is 1,039 feet long and would reach to the 80th floor of the Empire State Building if stood on end. The Flight Deck is 252 feet wide at its extreme breadth. The entire deck covers a total area of approximately four acres. It is wide enough to sit both the SS UNITED STATES and the SS AMERICA side-by-side on her deck, or as wide as a World War I destroyer was long. E From keel to mast, the FORRESTAL is as tall as a 25 story building. The engines that drive F ORRESTAL deliver more than 260,000 horsepower, or enough horsepower to keep about 1,430 1968 six-cylinder Mustangs on the road. The Hangar Deck area for handling, parking, and repairing aircraft is the main deck. It is 75,000 square feet in area, or two acres, and can house more than 80 planes. Storerooms on the ship are equal to a six-story warehouse one block square and have a total capacity of 371,204 cubic feet. It takes 300,000 gallons of paint to paint FORRESTAL. This is enough' paint to paint 30,000 average homes. The ship cruises at a speed of more than 30 knots, ,or 36 miles per hour if you are driving a car. 2 I
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