Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US Navy sold two old aircraft carriers for a cent each to a ship-breaking firm. The USS Kitty Hawk and USS John F. Kennedy had ...

Las Vegas-based Aircraft Recycling Corp.’s (ARC’s) work begins when an aircraft’s service ends. Just because the airplane itself may no longer be useful, the same cannot be said for the scrap metal, ...

CFRP, short for carbon fiber reinforced polymer, has become the new standard for commercial aircraft construction. Lighter ...

See a penny, pick it up, and anyone could afford the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk or the USS John F Kennedy. The veteran warships of the Vietnam and Gulf wars were sold to a scrap metal dealer in ...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — It now appears that South Texas will serve as a sort of burial ground for a once-mighty U.S. Navy ship. The aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk – named for the place in North Carolina ...

The slump in air travel since the September 11 attacks might multiply the amount of scrapped airplanes hitting the metals market. News reports out of the United Kingdom are claiming that as many as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force wasted $549 million on faulty Italian-made cargo planes for the Afghan government and no one ...