Steeljaw Scribe

(a little early, but it fits the subject –SJS)

Eighty-four Years Ago — The First Tailhooker!

On October 26, 1922 LCDR Godfrey DeCourcelles Chevalier, USN made the first arrested landing aboard the USS Langley, a converted coal collier (ex-USS Jupiter) and the Navy’s first aircraft carrier, underway off Cape Henry, VA.
Already an accomplished aviator (Naval Aviator #7), [...]

The W2F-1 Hawkeye (later re-designated YE-2) first took flight on 21 October 1960.
We’ve come a long way to this (E-2C Hawkeye 2000)
And the future looks bright:
Northrop Grumman has completed assembly of the first E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning and battle management test aircraft fuselage. System components are now being added into the fuselage structure. [...]

SJS note: Aircraft, like cars, stoves, televisions and Tickle-Me-Elmo ®, are products of assembly lines – some more massive than others, but the premise is still the same. Build a lot of something to set standards with common assemblies and a uniform product results. Except when it doesn’t. Every one of [...]

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Will be interested to see how this plays out — similar initiative to have vets salute during the playing of the National Anthem vice placing hand over heart hasn’t seen much participation, ‘least from YHS’ observation.
On another note — light blogging this weekend as YHS is off to a friend’s retirement in Norfolk tomorrow [...]

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(comes the time in most every Hawkeye flier’s experience when they have to deal face-to-face with the hydraulic failure demon. The Hawkeye has two hydraulic systems — one to drive the flight controls and another to drive the “auxiliary gear” which includes such minor items as landing gear, brakes, etc. In the event [...]

Well, a little different this week –
Happy 231st Birthday Navy!

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Amidst the angst and hyperbole following the NORK’s (failed) nuclear test, comes the first real fallout — another “state” seeking its rightful place among the larger and more established residents in the blogosphere…
Announcement of Glorious Nuclear Achievement to Gangster Stooges of Blogosphere  Glorious Launch of the People

In the back yard of scientific researchings [...]

(SJS: From the Able Dog 3website — the story may have taken place in 1950, but I have a sneaking suspiscion that there are more than one of us who can readily identify with some parts herein…oh, and the hearing test we all *so* love to do with each annual physical, especially in our, [...]