It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas…
(Consider it an early weekend present — enjoy! Now, get to reading that new Maritime Strategy – lots of discussions next week and some surprises in the offering on this site…stay tuned. -SJS) 15 Oct 1962. Imagery from U-2 flights begun on the 14th continue to roll in for imagery analysts at NPIC (National Photographic…
(The Scribe is flying back to occupied Virginia Friday, hence the early publication) Presented this week: The Douglas F4D/F-6A Skyray. Another of Ed Heinemann’s now-classic designs, the F4D counted a number of firsts in its history, but like the F3H, would be victimized by the Westinghouse J-40. In its short life, the F4D (or as…
Lots going on right now – between events in North Asia, a one family attempt to stimulate the local construction economy and completing the first round of writing/editing for the BMD chapter for the book project there hasn’t been a lot of time to post. Still, there are a couple of irons in the fire,…
Mach 2+ speeds with a fixed inlet. Push-button cruise control. All weather intercept capability with the AIM-7 Sparrow. A flat-out drag-racing king on the straights and in a climb. All this was the XF8U-3 Crusader III. < ?xml:namespace prefix = o /> Envisioned as a high speed, all weather interceptor follow-on to the already noteworthy…
After having spent the better part of a day re-visiting the National Museum of Naval Aviation, located onboard NAS Pensacola, there is much to post about – most good, but some others. For background, despite spending 26 years on active duty, when I left Pensacola for the E-2C replacement squadron (RVAW-120) in Norfolk, I would…
Last year, a small group of us spent the better part of the summer and fall writing on the Solomons Campaign. That drawnout slugfest in the southwest Pacific receives little notice beyond Guadalcanal and some discussions regarding Santa Cruz. The purpose of that exercise (here and over at USNI’s blog) was to surface the larger…
