Flightdeck Friday – Bonus Edition
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Flightdeck Friday: Implementing the Maritime Strategy-Quantity vs Quality (II) CV OPS
So the discussion earlier this week revolved around quantity vs quality and used as an argument in favor of quality that the Navy in the 1920’s and 30’s chose to press technology (and hence chose quality) over quantity (maintaining a large force structure), developing the tools, tactics and laying the groundwork for success in the…
Flightdeck Friday: The McDonnell FD/FH-1 Phantom
Prologue It began in December, 1943 with the delivery of the 8th and 9th YP-59 Airacomets (s/n 42-108778 and 42-100779) to the Navy for investigation of bringing jets to aircraft carriers. By all accounts, one wouldn’t have been surprised if the Navy had passed on the concept based on initial impressions from these prototypes (also…
Flightdeck Friday: 23 October 1972 and The End of Linebacker I
23 October: The U.S. ended all tactical air sorties into NVN above the 20th parallel and brought to a close Linebacker I operations. This gesture of good will in terminating the bombing in NVN above the 20th parallel was designed to help promote the peace negotiations being held in Paris. During May through October the…
Flightdeck Friday: Phriday Phantom Philms
OK, so a bit of a cop out but it serves in a pinch, especially after this kind of week…Up first, Phoreign Phantoms doing their thing to a bit of Wagner. Some vintage footage, and for those of us who spent a wee bit of time in Kef working with our RAF counterparts across the…
Flightdeck Friday – Maintainers
Usually these spaces are given over to aircraft or the operations and battles they have flown in. The aviators normally are well represented as well, but there is another group, without whom from the dawn of aviation, none of this would have been possible – aviation maintenance personnel. Long before the mission is flown and…
Flightdeck Friday: Flight of the Truculent Turtle
Fifty-five hours and 18minutes. 11,236.6 nautical miles. No GPS, no inertial nav, no fly-by-wire, no computers save the biologic ones and the whizwheels. No movies, no SATCOM, no sleeper seats. No in-flight refueling – no stops. No digital weather radar. Four aircrew, one nine-month old baby ‘roo and 8,592 gallons of AVGAS. Non-stop, Austalia to…