Next-generation aircraft carrier: builder’s sea trials done
NORFOLK, Va. — A shipbuilder says the USS Gerald R. Ford, the first of the Navy’s next generation of aircraft carriers, has completed the builder’s sea trials. Rolf Bartschi is Newport News Shipbuilding’s vice president for the Ford’s construction. He told The Virginian-Pilot (http://bit.ly/2p3N2q3) that the carrier spent a week at sea undergoing tests of