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 [...]
Flightdeck Friday (III): E-2D Completes First Flight
August 3rd, 2007 2 Comments
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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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