Steeljaw Scribe

Notes and commentary on things present, reflections on a career in naval aviation and serendipitous items as strike me at the moment…

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Flightdeck Friday (III): E-2D Completes First Flight

August 3rd, 2007 2 Comments

A Flightdeck Friday "three-fer"  (From a Northrop Grumman press release)
 
 
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Aug. 3, 2007 — The first E-2D Advanced Hawkeye development aircraft, known as Delta One, built for the U.S. Navy by prime contractor Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC),completed its first flight this afternoon. Northrop Grumman Flight Test Pilot Tom Boutin and U.S. Navy Flight [...]

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Flightdeck Friday (II): X-47B Wins Navy Bid

August 3rd, 2007 7 Comments

A "twofer" today …

(Aug 2 - multiple sources but h/t to The DEW Line)  The Navy has announced Northrop-Grumman’s X-47B won the bid over Boeing’s X-45 for the $635M UCAS-D contract.  Couple of items to note — when Boeing lost the JSF bid to Lockheed, they immediately jumped on the UCAV bandwagon and hoped for [...]

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Flightdeck Friday - The Way We Were

August 3rd, 2007 2 Comments

Something here for everyone - props & jets, straight deck carriers and battleships ("…a typical task force consisted of 3-4 carriers and a couple of battleships…" *sigh* those were the days - ed.), UNREPing a Gearing-class DD and more.  Transferred from home movies shot by an F9F pilot during the period 1953-54, the narrative is [...]

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