Flightdeck Friday – Fast Carriers and Their Fledglings
Some art and photos from the archives, bound together with a classic score – for your weekend’s pleasure. – SJS
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Some art and photos from the archives, bound together with a classic score – for your weekend’s pleasure. – SJS
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Last year, a small group of us spent the better part of the summer and fall writing on the Solomons Campaign. That drawnout slugfest in the southwest Pacific receives little notice beyond Guadalcanal and some discussions regarding Santa Cruz. The purpose of that exercise (here and over at USNI’s blog) was to surface the larger…
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Mix one gonzo engine (the Pratt & Whitney XR-4360-10 Wasp with 3,000 righteous HP) and a requirement to carry a large bomb load off a carrier deck for long range strikes against Japan and you have this week’s Flightdeck Friday subject – the Boeing XF8B-1. In 1943 the Navy contracted with Boeing to produce a…
Today — the Martin AM-1 Mauler: In 1943 the Navy issued a requirement for a new series of carrier-based attack aircraft, looking to combine the heretofore separate missions of scout/dive bomber and torpedo bomber. The venerable Dauntless had been replaced by the problematic Curtis Helldiver and the TBF/M Avenger had assumed the torpedo and bomber…
…though you might need a little more exotic kit than walking shoes and sunscreen to visit. (full story here) For those of short memory, the story of the USS Macon and her brood was the subject of an earlier Flightdeck Friday: “Gasbags and Hookers”
OK everyone, put your books and notes up and take out a pencil and paper – quiz time. The video below has a wide variety of subjects some of whom have graced these pages as subjects of Flightdeck Friday (sorry about the soundtrack – if you like C&W, great – if not, turn your…
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Well done, SJS. Worth every second of the seven minutes it took to watch…
SJS,
Really beautiful work ; (I hate to use the word beautiful in this context) but, it really is. You’ve captured the essence of the photos with the music.
Arrrgh! Put a lump in me throat, it did.
Buck, Guy:
Many thanks for the feedback & glad you enjoyed it. More to follow… 😉
– SJS