Kitty Hawk (CVA 63) - Naval Cruise Book

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f . This flij hl is over. Others will con- tinue until late in the night. Today the flights were for practice. Tomor- row they may not be. So the key for now is practice, practice and more practice . . . until everything becomes routine. And then practice some more. Today we prepare for what we hope may never come. The cost of prepa- redness runs high, but unpreparedness runs even higher.

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D A Y A T S E A i S KITTY lUWK CVA-6 RED SHE KITTY HAWK does more than launch and recover aircraft at sea. While her aircraft fly overhead, men spend hours keeping the ship ' s skin free from the corrosive effects of the weather and sea. Down below in the ship ' s interior, men are handling the necessary paperwork, while others may be getting a few winks after a mici-watch. There are other evolu- tions that together with flight opera- tions make up the whole of KITTY HAWK. The major ones are . . . , eJ ,e .