Sunday Cinema: The Romance of Naval Aviation (1970)
Quite a review of the types present in Naval Air in 1970…although they are missing one major player…
Quite a review of the types present in Naval Air in 1970…although they are missing one major player…
9 July 1962. At Johnston Atoll, a scrap of coral in a remote part of the Pacific, a Thor IRBM stands on the pad as launch preparations are carried out. Loaded with test equipment, its prime payload is a W-49/Mk-4 RV payload. The target, however, is not to be found on a map or chart….
From 1923 to 1940, the US Navy conducted 21 “Fleet Problems” as it sought to understand, exploit and incorporate new technologies and capabilities while developing the tactics, training and procedures to employ the same should war present itself – which by the 1930s was beginning to look more and more likely to the discerning observer….
So – just as I was making a serious dent in the pile of shame, in the mail today comes an advance copy of “The Admirals” courtesy the publisher, Little Brown, scheduled for release next month. The noted author Walter R. Borneman (Polk, 1812, and The French and Indian War among several) takes on the…
Ranger 07 is now at it’s temporary home on the air station side of NS Norfolk (Chambers Field). Some of us remember back to when VAQ-33 was onboard then-NAS Norfolk and shared hangar and flight line space with VAW (1979). In the Firebird’s inventory at the time, besides an EC-121, where a number of EA-3…
A little while back, lex spoke of the qualities of a good wingman. Today, comes the story (courtesy of a cell-, er, cube-mate) of another wingman, albeit from the other Service with pilots who fly jets, but compelling nonetheless. -SJS "Nearly all plumes of black smoke on dry lake beds are resulted from planned,…
On this Date (3 Oct): Sixty-two years ago: As the initial attempt to establish an earth satellite program, the Bureau of Aeronautics established a committee to evaluate the feasibility of space rocketry. This would lead to the Vanguard project. Forty-five years ago: Sigma 7, Commander Walter M. Schirra pilot was launched into orbit by a…
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Little Low A-6 in the middle, Little Not Enough Hummer in the groove, OK-3.
Note the suspend launch evolution at 1:08. Also decided lack of float coats on flightdeck personnel.
w/r, SJS
F-86 Naval variant landing towards the end of the reel?
FJ Fury
All we AIC types trained with FJ-4 types at NAS Glynco in days past. Fortune hunter squadron, as I recall.