Editing Midway-class aircraft carrier (section)

===1970s===
By the 1970s, ''Franklin D. Roosevelt'' and ''Coral Sea'' were showing their age. All three retained the [[McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II]] in their air wings, being too small to operate the new [[Grumman F-14 Tomcat]] fleet defense fighter or the [[S-3 Viking]] anti-submarine jet. In 1977, ''Franklin D. Roosevelt'' was decommissioned as she was the least modernized and in poor condition compared to the others in her class. On her final deployment, ''Roosevelt'' embarked [[Hawker Siddeley Harrier|AV-8 Harrier jump jets]] to test the concept of including [[Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing|VSTOL]] aircraft in a carrier air wing.
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 | image1 = USS Midway (CV-41) leaving Yokosuka, Crew spelling Sayonara.jpg
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 | image2 = USS Coral Sea (CV-43) aerial photo in 1986.JPEG
 | footer = ''Midway'' (above/left) and ''Coral Sea'' (above/right) in the 1980s; the difference in their appearance at this late stage in their service is due to ''Midway''{{'}}s extensive rebuild in the late 1960s (SCB 101.66), which was not carried out on ''Coral Sea''.
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