Jakes died Tuesday after falling from his bunk bed aboard the USS Kitty Hawk on November 29.

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By 1969, less than 75 years after Kitty Hawk, mankind had struck a flag on the moon.

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He actually helped man the 400, 000th aircraft landing aboard the USS Kitty Hawk.

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Back in the 1960s there was an officer, Captain Charlie Plumb, who flew jet fighters off the aircraft carrier the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk.

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"What we saw last week was not unlike the first flight of the Kitty Hawk, " said Friedland, Ivanhoe's cofounder and deputy chairman, in a conference call the next day.

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You were on the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk.

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