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Stick Post example
December 30th, 2007 by
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Example of a Stick post
Notes and commentary on things present, reflections on a career in naval aviation and various and sundry items as strike me at the moment…
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November 9th, 2007 by
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Enterprise Week
October 10th, 2007 by
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October 3, 1936: a naval legend is born:
On a bright October Saturday in 1936, a sleek steel hull, 800 feet in length, towering over the assembled dignitaries and onlookers, slipped the ways of Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. The autumn air ringing with the words from Shakespeare’s Othello - "May she also say with just pride: I have done the State some service" - the great ship was christened Enterprise, the seventh ship of that now-historic name to serve the United States. (source: www.CV6.org)
October 2, 1956 - she is betrayed…
More at Eagle1 today.
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Open Trackback Saturday
October 6th, 2007 by
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Flightdeck Friday: More Oddities
October 5th, 2007 by
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OK, so we’ve seen C-130’s, U-2’s and P-51’s launch and recover aboard CV’s with varying degrees of success. We also are well versed in the story of Colonel Jimmy Doolittle and his group launching off Hornet for a strike of the Japanese homeland - and the challenges they faced being unable to come back tot he ship to land, instead having to find sancutary in China post-strike. But what if the B-25 had a tailhook afterall? There was much to mitigate against it - the size of the aircraft, the tri-cycle gear configuration, etc. Probably couldn’t be done–or could it?
PBH-1H 43-4700 (BuNo 35277) was modified for aircraft carrier catapult launch and arrest retrievals. The first landings and catapult takeoffs took place aboard the USS Shangri La (CV-38) on November 15, 1944. Although the experiment was successful, no further work on a carrier-based Mitchell took place since American advances in the Pacific made such an aircraft unnecessary.
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There’s even more to this strange tale (tail?)…
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