Flightdeck Friday – Bonus Edition
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Flightdeck Fridays
Well, we have Friday Musings , Fullbore Fridays, Beer and Babes Fridays, so I guess it’s time to roll in with Flightdeck Fridays, presented herewith. What will one find? Well, it likely won’t be the usual stuff. Sorry, but they border on the overexposed anyway. Instead this will explore some of the lesser known or…
Flightdeck Friday: Torpedos and OOB Thinking
Off today to Norfolk to speak at the winging of the next class of replacement NFO’s at the E-2 FRS (VAW-120) – more on that later. -SJS 1 MAY 1951 Today’s subject – the torpedo attack on the floodgates of the Hwachon Dam, is an example of what today is described as thinking out of…
Flightdeck Friday: E-2D Advanced Hawkeye
This week we’re going to jump ahead a bit and look at the next generation Hawkeye a little more in depth. To recap, the E-2 was first delivered to the Navy in 1964 and the current generation, epitomized by the Hawkeye 2000, has been flying since the delivery of the first E-2C in 1973. That…
Flightdeck Friday: Smoke and the Battle of Midway
Checking in from the SJS-family’s TAD site this weekend (and yes, we still are in the pre-internet age back at the homeport, still awaiting the service visit by the provider…), where the lead Scriblet is tying the matrimonial knot (and once again, the weather-guessers appear to be winning as we contemplate low ceilings and fits…
Flightdeck Friday: Skipbombing and The Bismarck Sea
OK – so this week we’re doing something a little different by going Joint (before Joint was cool, so to speak). During the Midway postings, a commenter (commentator?) asked if YHS would provide a little more on skip bombing. Since 5th AF pretty much originated the tactic for counter-ship attacks (ASUW) and had such success…
Flightdeck Friday: Project Anvil
(ed. OK, so it’s not Friday – we were otherwise engaged this weekend and the coming week looks like it is going to be fairly busy – so consider this either a delayed post from Friday past or a downpaymet on the coming Friday… – SJS) “Vergeltungswaffe” – literally translated it means “compensation weapon”…