More Hawkeye Pics
Via Pinch, comes a bevy of new E-2D shots from NAVAIR:
Via Pinch, comes a bevy of new E-2D shots from NAVAIR:
* Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace The Bad Old Days Get out your white suit, your tap shoes and tails Let’s go backwards when forward fails And movie stars you thought were alone then Now are framed beside your bed Don’t throw the pa-ast away You might need it some rainy…
In the mail today from ANA: 99 ANAers, Friends of ANA and Naval Aviation, A number of members have asked for more information about The Boeing Company’s great Public Television program, “Angle of Attackâ€. In case you missed it before, the schedule is in the attachment. It is a bit long but you should find…
The average age of aircraft in the Russian Air Force is about 25 years, so the defense ministry is working up an ambitious plan to replace a major portion while eliminating some inventory by retirement, all by 2020. Fifteen hundred aircraft of which 350 are to be new production combat aircraft over the next ten…
Seems like there is interest on the part of the Indian Navy in the carrier capability of the Super Hornet that is part of the multi-national competition:Â Now Navy Wants Super Hornets Too (HINDUSTAN TIMES (INDIA)14 MAY 08) … Rahul Singh It is now sufficiently clear that the Indian Navy wants to be able to…
Say this about the Russians – definitely getting slicker in their marketing than their Soviet forebears… (and it’s in English too) Techie note – have been experimenting with inserting Flash objects this weekend, so if the above just shows up as a blank check your browser settings or if you are on a network…
Could trouble (Ok. more trouble) be brewing over in JSF-land? Comes an article today from the Paris Airshow that floats "concerns" from the Air Force over progress in the CV-version of the F-35 (the F-35C). Unlike the -A or -B model, the USN will be the only customer for the -C.
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She’s beautiful!!!
Shiny and clean! No salt spray.
Glass cockpits and color big-screens for the Moles, no less.
Did I notice a receptacle for mid-air refueling behind the cockpit? If so, those triple cycles just got a lot longer (if we buy the things).
Shiny indeed 🙂 Makes me wish I were a JO again – but then, I’m betting the guys who finished out in Fudds felt the same way in retirement when looking at the (then) new E-2C ARPS in ’78…
– SJS
The color “big” screens look similar to the ones in the HE2K; I’d just like to have the brand new radar to populate it. And we’re going to need some new seats if we’re going to do AAR; my bottom is only rated for 5.0…
Wow…sucking up the gear before the end of the runway, close formation flying, breaks and low passes over the field.
And all with a yoke and not a stick…
The Fighter Union is gonna be over to break a few kneecaps..
And…link to pics large enough for use for wallpapers, please?
Great shots…to bad the O will slow the production rate.