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Flightdeck Friday: Fight’s On — Junior Service Accepts Challenge
Project Valour-IT Update Mike over at No Angst Zone has picked up the gauntlet and dares to think the Junior Service can prevail. Ha! He even tries to resurrect that phony test off VA Capes. Remember that? The one where not only the targets were, well, you know, “fixed”. Afterall, when they had to go…
Flight Deck Friday: Pilots – The Movie
And now for something a little different. Nose – when I saw this the first time (it was passed along by an ex-Corsair/Crusader jock I work with) couldn’t help but think of you Enjoy your Friday all ! Oh yeah — Spitfires y’all — there be Spitfires in thar… —– —–
Naval Aviation Centennial: One Astronaut, A Future Astronaut and Reaching for New Heights
Forty-nine years ago – within one day of each other, one astronaut headed for orbit as America’s first to circle the Earth and a future astronaut opened a series of record attempts in the McDonell F4H Phantom: Images Courtesy Rex Features & NASA 20 Feb 1962: Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn. USMC, in Mercury spacecraft…
Flightdeck Friday — The History of AEW
Project Cadillac (Part I) Ed note: In 1981 a smart-a$$ LTJG wrote a note to the editor of The Hook bemoaning the lack of VAW articles. Sensing an opportunity, the then editor, Bob Lawson, wrote back challenging the young jg to pick up quill and scroll and “write something!†The gauntlet was accepted and the…
Flightdeck Friday: Boeing F4B-4
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Flightdeck Friday – What Am I? Updated & Answered
A little something for the recce crowd out there: 1. What is it? 2. What is it used for? 3. What platform is it a part of? Hint: You’ve read about it here before…look in here. Update: What Am I? — dive brakes on the martin AM-1 Mauler: