Navy aircraft begins New Year by sea.When the Maersk Constellation left Yokohama Yokohama (yō'kōhä`mä), city (1990 pop. 3,220,331), capital of Kanagawa prefecture, SE Honshu, Japan, on the western shore of Tokyo Bay. Japan's second largest city and one of its leading seaports, Yokohama belongs to the extensive urban-industrial belt around Tokyo called the Keihin Industrial Zone., Japan, on Jan. 27, it carried an unusual piece of MTMC cargo. The vessel carried an E-2C U.S. Navy Hawkeye aircraft from Atsugi Atsugi (ät's  `gē), city (1990 pop. 197,292), Kanagawa prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan, on the Sagami River. It is an important communication, commercial, and agricultural center. It produces electric communications equipment and automobile parts. An air force base is nearby. Naval Air Facility in Japan. Wrapped in heavy white plastic, the aircraft was an unusual sight. The move of the aircraft was an epic. It went by barge from Kisarazu Kisarazu (kēsärä`z ), city (1990 pop. 123,433), Chiba prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay. It is a residential and industrial suburb of Tokyo noted for its Shojoji (Buddhist) temple. Chemicals, electrical machinery, and iron are among the city's products., Japan, to Yokohama's North Pier on New Year's Eve. Members of the 836th Transportation Battalion, of Yokohama, supervised the loading of the aircraft. "It was a challenge," said Dave Jones, of MTMC's Joint Traffic Management Office. "We don't carry airplanes that often. Usually they have to be dismantled." The aircraft is bound for San Diego, where it will be transshipped to nearby Naval Aviation Depot Rework Facility, North Island North Island (1996 pop. 2,718,188), 44,702 sq mi (115,777 sq km), New Zealand. It is the smaller but more populous of the two principal islands of the country. The principal cities are Wellington, capital of New Zealand, and Auckland. Separated from South Island by Cook Strait, North Island is irregularly shaped with a long peninsula projecting northwest. There are volcanic mountains, the highest being Ruapehu (9,175 ft/2,797 m) and Mt. Egmont (8,260 ft/2,518 m)., Calif. The aircraft is headed back to the United States for Phased Depot Maintenance induction, said Lt. Daryl Pierce, of the Atsugi facility. The aircraft will be totally overhauled in the four-month maintenance cycle. The Hawkeye uses a series of electronic systems to detect, track and identify threats to U.S. Navy aircraft carrier aircraft carrier, ship designed to carry aircraft and to permit takeoff and landing of planes. The carrier's distinctive features are a flat upper deck (flight deck) that functions as a takeoff and landing field, and a main deck (hangar deck) beneath the flight deck for storing and servicing the aircraft. The aircraft carrier emerged after World War I as an experimentally modified cruiser. groups. |
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