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More Naval Aviation Heritage Aircraft (But Still No Hawkeye)

Latest additions – EA-6B in colors from the Battle of the Coral Sea: A P-3 in the colors of VP-44 PBY from Midway: And a Growler in tri-color from Air Group 85 embarked in USS Shangri-La late in the war: So basically, we now have one of everything in the inventory, fixed and rotary wing, [...] [...]

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Doolittle’s Raiders: Last Surviving Bomber Pilot of WWII Doolittle Raid, Dies at 93

The last pilot from the Doolittle raid, Col Bill Bower, USAF-Ret., passed away Jan 10 at his home in Boulder CO: As a 25-year-old first lieutenant, Col. Bower commanded one of the 16 Army Air Forces’ B-25s in the top-secret mission under the direction of then-Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle. Col. Bower and the 79 [...] [...]

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U.S. Naval Aviation – 100 Years

18 January 1911: At 11:01 a.m., Eugene Ely, flying the same Curtiss pusher used to take off from Birmingham (CL 2), landed on a specially built platform aboard the armored cruiser Pennsylvania (Armored cruiser No. 4) at anchor in San Francisco Bay. At 11:58 he took off and returned to Selfridge Field, San Francisco, completing [...] [...]