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By Steeljawscribe, on October 19th, 2010
This Thursday, 21 October 2010, marks the 50th anniversary of the first flight of the first purpose built AEW aircraft, the E-2 Hawkeye (actually, it was the YW2F-1). Designed around the radar, rather than adapting an existing airframe, the Hawkeye symbolized function over form – from the 24ft “rotodome” prominently perched over the fuselage, to [...] [...]
By Steeljawscribe, on October 17th, 2010
1050L 24 Oct 1944. USS St. Lo (CVE-63) is under heavy air attack. After successfully fending off the superior surface force of VADM Takeo Kurita’s Center Force, “Taffy 3” is now defending against a surprise air attack that has lasted some 40 minutes already. One of the features of this attack is the use of [...] [...]
By Steeljawscribe, on October 9th, 2010
Project CADILLAC (Part II) Project Cadillac was more than just a program to develop radar – it would develop an entire AEW system — Radar, IFF, relay equipment, shipboard receivers, and airborne platform. Such an undertaking would be ambitious enough in peacetime, at the height of a critical stage in the [...] [...]
By Steeljawscribe, on October 6th, 2010
Project CADILLAC (Part I) Ed note: Everything has a beginning and that beginning is usually quite humble compared to present conditions. Consider, a small spring at the headwaters of the Madison River in Montana is the source of the mighty Missouri River which itself empties into ol’ man river — the Mississippi, all of which [...] [...]
By Steeljawscribe, on October 5th, 2010
By any measure, fifty years is remarkable. Birthdays, reunions, wedding anniversaries – in all of these the marker set at fifty years is justifiably prominent and noteworthy. For aircraft — especially those in carrier aviation, it is signatory. This month the E-2 Hawkeye will celebrate 50 years, starting with the first flight of the prototype, [...] [...]
By Steeljawscribe, on February 27th, 2009 Disclaimer: I am not nor have I ever been an employee of N-G. Yes, I have over 3,000 hours in their E-2C and it is with that time, and the experiences it has brought across a wide playing field that the following is submitted. – SJS The final deliveries of supplies and materials for the [...] [...]
By Steeljawscribe, on April 23rd, 2008 Full story here: Flight-Test Program Accelerates For U.S. Navy’s E-2D Couple of items worth noting: Within three years, the U.S. Navy’s fleet will have fielded the technology for precisely locating small, flying targets. The target set embraces some of the Navy’s latest nightmares, including the next-generation of stealthy – sometimes supersonic – cruise missiles.Moreover, with [...] [...]
By Steeljawscribe, on April 21st, 2008 (1988) plus c’est la même chose (2008) (photo of VAW-126 by way of Southern Air Pirate) …for the uninitiated – those would be the back-ends of the E-2C, then and now. Oh, and Lex – per your query: subfamily: Talpinae; tribe: talpini; genus: talpa; Talpa caeca; sub-genus: hummerus Sphere: Related Content [...]
By Steeljawscribe, on April 1st, 2008 Pausing for a moment to acknowledge this signatory event in VAW history before returning to the discussion on the MS later today… -SJS 1967: VAW-11 (West coast) and VAW-12 (East coast) constitute the two largest squadrons in the Navy with some 200 officers and 800 enlisted each. Each squadrom supports 4 plane E-1B Tracer (better [...] [...]
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