Admin Update

As promised, the Flightdeck Friday Index has been completed and is now available under the "Pages" heading on the sidebar.  Future topics will include Brewster’s F2A Buffalo, Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, Boeing PB-1W, Blackburn Buccaneer and de Havilland Sea Vixen (among many others).  If there are any favorites out there, drop a line and we’ll add them to the list.  Also, if you have any material that would add to the topic at hand – be it imagery or a sea story, pass it along and we will give appropriate credit, statue of limitations notwithstanding…   We are also considering expanding into the X-plane program of the 50’s since a fair number of Naval Aviators participated in that and Navy had a few notable airframes of its own (e.g., Douglas’  Skyrocket I & II).

The other project we mentioned at year’s start was the set-up of a Virtual Library.  That too is under construction and available as we have begun to populate it with some documents via Adobe’s SHARE (beta) facility.  You may need to have Flash ver 9.0 loaded to take full advantage of this capability, but at the very least, you should be able to download and read the PDFs locally if you chose not to go the SHARE route.  As always, feedback and suggestions are welcome – use the email link in the sidebar to do so and thanks for your time and continued readership.

– SJS