File:Preliminary design model of USS United States (CVA-58) undergoing seekeeping tests at Carderock (03), c1947.jpg

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Description	A preliminary design model of the proposed U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS United States (CVA-58) undergoing seakeeping tests at the David Taylor Model Basin, Carderock, Maryland (USA), circa 1947. This is an early version of the CVA-58 design, without catapult sponsons. Note the folding smokestacks in the up position. Aircraft models on the flight deck appear to represent the Vought F7U Cutlass fighter and a notional heavy attack bomber.
Date	circa 1947 date QS:P,+1947-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source	Official U.S. Navy photo NH 93831 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
Author	U.S. Navy. 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 History and Heritage Command, 1982.

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