* 1949 – The keel for the aircraft carrier is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding.

Originally trained as a structural engineer, he worked as an aircraft designer for Short and Harland, then as science correspondent to The Belfast Telegraph from 1966-1969, and as publicity officer for Vickers Shipbuilding ( 1973-1975 ), before starting to write full-time.

Amongs these were the aircraft carrier ; the battleships, now preserved as a museum ship at Battleship Cove in Massachusetts, and ; and, the world's last all-gun heavy warship, which is still preserved at Fore River as the main exhibit of the United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum.

Roe and Company, one of the world's first aircraft companies ; de Havilland, manufacturer of the world's first commercial jet airliner ; British Aircraft Corporation, co-manufacturer of the Concorde supersonic transport ; Supermarine, manufacturer of the Spitfire ; Yarrow Shipbuilders, builders of the Royal Navy's first destroyers ; and Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, builders of the Royal Navy's first submarines.

In 1934, Mitsubishi Shipbuilding was merged with the Mitsubishi Aircraft Co., a company established in 1920 to manufacture aircraft engines and other parts.

A brief stop in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations upon his return from England in the spring of 1934 preceded his traveling to the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia, as prospective commanding officer of the new aircraft carrier Ranger ( CV-4 ).

When Scottish Aviation merged with British Aerospace as a result of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act, BAe maintained aircraft production at the site until 1998, primarily updates of the Jetstream line.

At the formerly sleepy little farming community of Newport News Point, he set about other developments locally there, notably building the landmark Hotel Warwick and founding the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, which became the largest privately owned shipyard in the United States.

The first English-speaking settler was Thomas Powel who arrived in 1790, there was considerable colonization by English Ship-builders, Scottish Merchants and Irish Immigrants followed including many Irish Protestants who arrived to work in the Jardine Shipbuilding Yards around the year 1819 and they eventually cleared enough land to receive land grants following the 1820s survey by a Mr. Layton conducted around the Molus River area of nearby Weldford Parish, New Brunswick and the size of Elsipogtog First Nation was reduced to the current boundaries.

PAL, with assistance from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co .( DSME ) of South Korea, and there are a plans to build indigenous missile-armed corvettes ( Kornas ).

At the top right, there are crossed hammers, representing the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company – the borough's main employer.

The OECD's Council Working Party on Shipbuilding ( WP6 ) will continue its efforts to identify and progressively reduce factors that distort the shipbuilding market.

The imposing red sandstone offices of the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company on Govan Road, which from 2013, will form the Fairfield Heritage Centre.

Shipbuilding continued to be the major industry of Milford through World War I, bringing considerable prosperity to the town.

This activity included Blackwall Yard ( two of whose former dry docks can still be seen around the present-day Reuters building ), the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company at Leamouth, part of whose works lay in Blackwall, and the Orchard House Yard.

The law established that the distribution of the monies to support projects was to be performed by the Japan Shipbuilding Industry Foundation, a body that eventually came to be known as the Nippon Foundation.

In 2002, NCL purchased the half-complete hull of the first Project America ship, at the time under construction at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA, which was towed to Germany to be completed at the Lloyd Werft shipyard.

Nortuna bought four old US general cargo ships, and two liners were ordered from Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering in Tokyo, to be built by their dock in Yokohama.

* 1929 – is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.

Shipbuilding peaked in the 1850s, marked in 1851 by the full rigged ship Lord Clarendon, the largest wooden ship ever built in Cape Breton.

Shipbuilding on Clydeside ( the river Clyde through Glasgow and other points ) began when the first small yards were opened in 1712 at the Scott family's shipyard at Greenock.

Hitachi Shipbuilding of Osaka, Japan, was another licensee of Supramar, as well as many leading ship owners and shipyards in the OECD countries.

Shipbuilding was important, until it declined in the 1870s with the competition from steamships.

These ships, delivered to MSC in the mid-1980s, built at Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Chester, Pennsylvania and converted at National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, San Diego.

The 2nd Lieutenant John P. Bobo Class ships are new construction ships delivered to MSC in the mid-1980s from General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division, Quincy, Mass.

Newport News Shipbuilding ( NNS ), originally Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company ( NNS & DD ), was the largest privately owned shipyard in the United States prior to being purchased by Northrop Grumman in 2001.

Known as Northrop Grumman Newport News ( NGNN ), and later Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Newport News ( NGSB-NN ), the company is located in Newport News, Virginia, and often participates in projects with the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, also located adjacent to Hampton Roads.

In 1891, Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company delivered its first ship, a tugboat named Dorothy.

He also married Collis ' widow Arabella Huntington, and assumed Collis's leadership role with Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company.

During World War II, it built ships as part of the U. S. Government's Emergency Shipbuilding Program, and swiftly filled requests for " Liberty ships " that were needed during the war.

It founded the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, an emergency yard on the banks of the Cape Fear River and launched its first Liberty ship before the end of 1941, building 243 ships in all, including 186 Liberties.

On 7 November 2001, Northrop Grumman entered an agreement to purchase Newport News Shipbuilding for a total of $ 2. 6 billion.

On 28 January 2008, Northrop Grumman Corporation realigned its two shipbuilding sectors, Northrop Grumman Newport News and Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, into a single sector called Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding.

Image: NNSX 41809 June 10 2008. JPG | Newport News Shipbuilding Foundry & Switch Engine.

The decreases, which are largely in construction and in aircraft procurement, are offset in part by increases for research and development and for procurement of other military equipment such as tanks, vehicles, guns, and electronic devices.

New obligational authority for 1961 recommended in this budget for aircraft procurement ( excluding amounts for related research and construction ) totals $4,753 million, which is $1,390 million below that enacted for 1960.

Research, development test and evaluation funds, devoted to missiles in 1960 were 3 to 4 times as large as those devoted to aircraft, and actual missile procurement is expected to exceed aircraft procurement by 1963.

The future of manned aircraft is in doubt, which affects government procurement, and jet transports have revolutionized the airline trade -- one jet can take the place of three compound-engine planes.

In an effort to augment the Looking Glass mission, a 1973 initiative resulted in the establishment of the National Emergency Airborne Command Post ( NEACP ), also known as " knee cap ," resulting in the procurement of four Boeing E-4 aircraft derived from the Boeing 747.

By 1916 the lack of co-ordination of the Army's Royal Flying Corps and the Navy's Royal Naval Air Service had led to serious problems, not only in the procurement of aircraft engines, but also in the air defence of Great Britain.

The F-5E / Fs assigned to the 425th for training carried USAF serial numbers and were procured through normal aircraft procurement procedures and channels.

Arnold gained significant experience in aircraft production and procurement, the construction of air schools and airfields, and the recruitment and training of large numbers of personnel, as well as learning political in-fighting in the Washington environment, all of which helped him significantly 25 years later.

In its final report, the House Armed Services Committee found no substance to the charges relating to Johnson's and Symington's roles in aircraft procurement.

The arguments, mainly over aircraft procurement and armament for the defence of Germany from Allied bombing began to give rise to a growing personal rift between Göring and Galland.

Production and aircraft procurement were not his responsibility but Galland identified four major mistakes by the OKL during the war, and accepted partial responsibility for the first three:

Inter-service rivalry even affected aircraft procurement.

He was also committee chair, when Congress authorized the procurement of the first nuclear-powered aircraft carriers starting with in the late 1950s.

Richthofen's role was mainly concerned with aircraft procurement programs for the fledgling Luftwaffe.

* October 25 – General Maurice Gamelin, Frances Chief of Staff of National Defense, puts before Prime Minister of France Édouard Daladier an assessment stating that Germany has 5, 000 aircraft and France only 500, that the British Royal Air Force and French Air Force combined cannot match the German Luftwaffe, and that France cannot hope for even minimal security against German air attack before 1940 unless it embarks on a large, new aircraft procurement program.

* A recommendation is made that the French Navy investigate the design and procurement of an aircraft carrier with a flight deck.

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Lovett served with distinction, overseeing the massive expansion of the Army Air Forces and the procurement of huge numbers of aircraft during World War II.